MSC – Project Part B

By Muhammad Faizan Kaleem 10-D 21345

Muhammad Faizan Kaleem 10-D

“On land and in the sea, our
fore-fathers lived and survived in this
environment. They were able to do so
because they recognized the need to
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conserve it, to take from it only what they

needed to live, and to preserve it for
succeeding generations.”
- Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan

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 Wild-life Preservation

Sheikh Zayed always knew the importance of preserving a region’s wild-life long
before the world posed it as a major concern, his father always inquired the people to
probe for the topography of the land, after much research sheikh Zayed found out that
this region was once brimming with with vibrant life and teeming with dense forests,
but had collapsed due to an everlasting onslaught of droughts and the gradual change
of climatic conditions.

Sheikh Zayed had a desire to return the UAE back to it’s former conditions and to do
this he had to endeavour on a challenging quest with the tides of the desert against
him.
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Wild-life Preservation

• Sheikh Zayed focused on encouraging and informing the people about the
importance of wildlife preservation and why it was so necessary to bring back the
former glory and beauty of the UAE,

• Sheikh Zayed began promoting for the protection of wild-life and kept trying so that
people could act on his message.

• In 1968, His Highness Sheikh Zayed found the Al Ain Zoo with the vision of
creating natural habitats for animals to live freely. Al Ain Zoo has always
been a haven for endangered animals to reside.

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Reversing Desertification

One of Sheikh Zayed’s most consequential triumph was to turn 3.18% or 317,000
hectares of UAE land into forests.

One of Sheikh Zayed’s most important goals was to transform the desert into green
pieces of land filled with trees and habitual areas.

It was discovered that the desert was affecting the agricultural side of Abu Dhabi, as
sand used to drift onto plantations and suppress the growth of crops. Thus extensive
projects were raised by sheikh Zayed to fight the desert.

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Reversing Desertification

A tree planting project that took

off at the end of the 1960s
started by his highness Sheikh
Zayed is still going strong and
prospering even today with over
a 100 million trees having been
planted. The results and
culmination of this project can
be seen between Abu Dhabi and
Al-Ain.

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Initiatives by UAE government for a
sustainable future
• UAE Energy Strategy 2050

In 2017 the UAE launched which is considered the first unified energy strategy that is
based on supply and demand. The aim is to increase the contribution of clean energy
in the total energy mix from 25% to 50% by 2050 and reduce carbon footprint of
power generation by 70%, which can save over 700 billion Dhs.

It also strives to increase consumption efficiency of individuals and corporates by 40%

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Initiatives by UAE government for a
sustainable future
• UAE Centennial 2071

H.H. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime

Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai launched UAE Centennial Plan 2071
which aims to fortify government workings, strengthen the country’s
reputation

The plan directs in investing in the future generations, by preparing them

with skills and knowledge needed to face rapid changes in the global strife
and advancing technological changes