Area: 35 km2
Type : Captive and multipurpose protected area
Distance from Cairo : 400 Km
The protected Area is divided into two major sections:
1- Captive and Breeding wild animals
There are possibilities of captive and breeding Egyptian deer, mountain goats, bighorn, ostrich, zebra and some reptiles .
2. Captive and plant genes
Since there is a need to collect plant genes threatened with extinction, especially palm trees, some types of trees, bushes, plantations, cactus, juicy plants and medical and aromatic plants that are genes of important economic crops, several types of them have been planted in the protected area where the wild genes are collected from the vicinity for reproduction.
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