Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Saloga, Ghazal and the small Islands in First cataract in AswanGovernorate

Date of Announcement : 1986
Area : 0.5 km2
Type : Wetlands and landscape
Distance from Cairo : 700 km

The Area is characterized by the sovereignty of some types of trees like acacia. The greenery in the Area includes about 94 different species of plants including those that solely grow in these islands, specially alongside the Nile Valley. The distinguished natural conditions provided for these islands life opportunity for resident and migrating birds. More than 60 species of birds were recorded, including rare and extinctionable birds on the international level, including species that have lived and reproduced on those islands since the Ancient Egyptian times, they are recorded in their scriptures and remnants , such as bittern, hoopoe and Egyptian geese.

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