"PLANT FOR THE PLANET" IN MENA REGION: Environmentalists try to save threatened desert tree

The World Wildlife Fund and the Emirates Wildlife Society are fighting back- launching a campaign to save the ghaf. They hope increased awareness will convince the Emirates' government to declare it the country's national tree. "It should result in greater respect for the tree from the public," said Rashmi de Roy of the WWF's Dubai office. The WWF has set up a Web site where the public can learn about the ghaf, buy ghaf seedlings and register their support. The groups also hope to designate protected ghaf woodlands across the Emirates and plant 100 ghaf trees in a protected part of the Abu Dhabi emirate in September.

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