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Heroes of the UAE

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Raising awareness on Climate Change and the need to reduce consumption of energy and water

EWS-WWF in partnership with the Environment Agency of Abu Dhabi (EAD), launched 'Heroes of the UAE Campaign' , urging all residents to reduce their energy and water consumption and, in doing so, help lower the country's ecological footprint and participate in global efforts to tackle climate change. This campaign aims to reach households, schools, companies and the governmental sector with important information, tips and tools to reduce the ecological footprint Read more...

Wadi Wurayah, a Mountain Protected Area

The United Arab Emirates has established the Wadi Wurayah Fujairah as the country’s first protected mountain area.

Saving UAE's last wilderness

Mountain Protected Area in Wadi Wurayah

Wadi Wurayah in Fujairah was officially declared the first Mountain Protected Area on March 16, 2009 by HH Sheikh Hamad bin Mohammad Al Sharqi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Fujairah. The creation of the UAE's first Mountain Protected Area brought this three-year project, sponsored by HSBC Bank Middle East, and managed by EWS-WWF and Fujairah Municipality to a successful conclusion. The project is now entering the next and very important phase, implementation of the Management plan. Read more...

Enviro-Spellathon

Interactive Envirospellathon CD Cover - English

Sustaining interest in the Environment

One cannot disagree that the most important audience we need to educate on the need for sustainable actions in the environment are children. They are the future consumers, educators, business people and governments that will determine policies and practises to sustain our tenure on earth.

Enviro-Spellathon is an English and Arabic environmental education resource,  a first of its kind for UAE schools, the programme has been endorsed by the Ministry of Education and is promoted as a highly recommended extracurricular activity by Dubai’s Knowledge and Human Development Authority. Read more...

Ecological Footprint

According to WWF's Living Planet Report, humanity’s Ecological Footprint – the demand people place upon the natural world – has increased to the point where the Earth is unable to keep up in the struggle to regenerate.

Initiating an understanding on the measurement of UAE’s ecological footprint

The ecological footprint is a resource accounting tool that measures humanity’s demand on the Earth. Using this tool, the international NGO, Global Footprint Network, periodically calculates global and national resource consumption patterns and ranks countries by demand on nature. The UAE has amongst the highest ecological footprint per capita in the world. Through data verification and analysis, the Basama Al Beeiya (Footprint in Arabic) Initiative represents an important step to better understand the UAE’s ecological footprint and to identify means by which reduction can be realised. Towards fulfilment of this, the Ministry of Environment and Water, AGEDI and EWS-WWF are working with the Global Footprint Network to authenticate data used for the UAE’s
footprint calculation. Read more...

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