| Name | Wadi al-Haysiyah |
| Country | Saudi Arabia |
| Description | - |
| Refrences | - |
| Show On Map |
Name | Wadi Al-Helw |
| Country | UAE |
| Description | - |
| Refrences | - |
| Show On Map |
Name | Wadi Al-Hitan (Whale Valley) |
| Country | Egypt |
| Description | Wadi Al-Hitan, Whale Valley, in the Western Desert of Egypt, contains invaluable fossil remains of the earliest, and now extinct, suborder of whales, Archaeoceti. These fossils represent one of the major stories of evolution: the emergence of the whale as an ocean-going mammal from a previous life as a land-based animal. This is the most important site in the world for the demonstration of this stage of evolution. It portrays vividly the form and life of these whales during their transition. The number, concentration and quality of such fossils here is unique, as is their accessibility and setting in an attractive and protected landscape. The fossils of Al-Hitan show the youngest archaeocetes, in the last stages of losing their hind limbs. Other fossil material in the site makes it possible to reconstruct the surrounding environmental and ecological conditions of the time |
| Refrences | http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1186 |
| Show On Map |
Name | Wadi al-Hizmah / Wadi Tathlith |
| Country | Saudi Arabia |
| Description | The northern extension of the Najran highlands in the rainshadow of the Sarawat Escarpment, with perennial streams. Includes Al-Masani'. Not yet inventoried. Species in it Commiphora gileadensis, Commiphora myrrha, Dracaena serrulata, Moringa peregrine, Phoenix dactylifera, Ziziphus spina-christi, Solanum cordatum, Balanites aegyptiaca |
| Refrences | http://faculty.ksu.edu.sa/Alfarhan/Pages/ConservationEfforts.aspx |
| Show On Map |
Name | Wadi Allaqi |
| Country | Egypt |
| Description | Wadi Allaqui is located in Egypt's southeastern desert, about 180 km south of Aswan on the eastern side of Lake Nasser. It is a major dry river, which drains from the Red Sea hills to the Nile Valley. The about 1,000 non-sedentary inhabitants (2003) use the natural resources of the biosphere reserve for livestock transhumance, charcoal production, the collection of medicinal plants, quarrying and small-scale cultivation. Resource conservation has been a concept inherent in the Bedouin's livelihood and value system over centuries. The views, aspirations and accumulated knowledge of the Bedouins are included in decision-making processes within the biosphere reserve. Core support for the biosphere reserve is provided by the Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency. The principal focal point for research activities is the Unite of Environmental Studies and Development of South Valley, with a Desert Field Station and a Conservation Centre, in Wadi Allaqi, providing facilities for local and overseas researchers. Various cooperative programmes have been launched in association with several overseas universities and with support from such bodies as UNEP, UNESCO, The British Council, the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) of Canada, etc. Links with UNESCO include the UNESCO-Ecotechnie Chair on Environment and Development at South Valley University. |
| Refrences | http://www.unesco.org/mabdb/br/brdir/directory/biores.asp?mode=all |
| Show On Map |
Name | Wadi Degla |
| Country | Egypt |
| Description | Wadi Degla is one of the important valleys which extend from east to west with a length of 30 km. It passes through the limestone rocks that had remained in the marine environment during the Eocene Epoch in the eastern desert ( 60 million years ). Therefore , it is rich with fossils . The height of these rocks alongside the valley is around 50 m. A group of valleys flew into this valley. The valley has a group of animals including mammals like dear , taital , mountain rabits , red fox , feather tailed rat , oviparous , barbed rat, little tailed bat and others. Among the insects there are and many others. 18 species of reptiles have been recorded . The rain water dropping from the waterfalls affected the limestone rocks along the years and formed the so called canyon Degla, which resembles the Grand Canyon in the U.S . |
| Refrences | http://www.eeaa.gov.eg/english/main/protect_desc.asp |
| Show On Map |
Name | Wadi El Assuti |
| Country | Egypt |
| Description | 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. 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. |
| Refrences | http://www.eeaa.gov.eg/english/main/protect_desc.asp |
| Show On Map |
Name | Wadi El Rayan |
| Country | Egypt |
| Description | Comprises two main lakes, at different elevations, connected by a swampy channel, one of the most important habitats for certain bird species of national, regional and international importance. The area holds reasonable numbers of wintering birds such as the near-threatened Ferruginous Duck (Aythya nyroca) and Pallid Harrier Circus macrourus as well as several threatened species of mammals, including the slender horned gazelle, Gazella leptoceros. The lakes and springs play a critical role in the life cycles of a remarkable diversity of species, including 29 fish species, 164 bird species, 24 mammal species, 14 reptile species and 38 plant species. Fishing and agriculture are the major sources of livelihood for the 12,000 resident population, and the annual fish catch has been increasing markedly. Potential threats to the site include agricultural and wastewater drainage as well as illegal hunting. Wadi al-Hitan (Whale Valley), within the Ramsar Site, was designated as a World Heritage site in 2005 because of invaluable fossil remains of the earliest, and now extinct, suborder of whales, Archaeoceti. These fossils represent one of the major stories of evolution: the emergence of the whale as an ocean-going mammal from a previous life as a land-based animal (WH List). |
| Refrences | https://rsis.ramsar.org/ris/2041?language=en |
| Show On Map |
Name | Wadi El Rayan Protected Area |
| Country | Egypt |
| Description | Comprises two main lakes, at different elevations, connected by a swampy channel, one of the most important habitats for certain bird species of national, regional and international importance. The area holds reasonable numbers of wintering birds such as the near-threatened Ferruginous Duck (Aythya nyroca) and Pallid Harrier Circus macrourus as well as several threatened species of mammals, including the slender horned gazelle, Gazella leptoceros. The lakes and springs play a critical role in the life cycles of a remarkable diversity of species, including 29 fish species, 164 bird species, 24 mammal species, 14 reptile species and 38 plant species. Fishing and agriculture are the major sources of livelihood for the 12,000 resident population, and the annual fish catch has been increasing markedly. Potential threats to the site include agricultural and wastewater drainage as well as illegal hunting. Wadi al-Hitan (Whale Valley), within the Ramsar Site, was designated as a World Heritage site in 2005 because of invaluable fossil remains of the earliest, and now extinct, suborder of whales, Archaeoceti. These fossils represent one of the major stories of evolution: the emergence of the whale as an ocean-going mammal from a previous life as a land-based animal (WH List). |
| Refrences | https://rsis.ramsar.org/ris/2041?language=en |
| Show On Map |
Name | Wadi El-Gemal - Hamata |
| Country | Egypt |
| Description | The protected area includes marine and terrestrial components. The terrestrial component encompasses roughly a 50 X 50 km segment of the Red Sea hills and coastal desert. Wadi El Gemal and its delta are the central theme of the protected area and the area encompasses the entire watershed of the wadi. However, the protected area takes in other adjacent desert and marine habitats, which complement the wadi, both ecologically and functionally (i.e. in terms of representing a meaningful management unit). Wadi El Gemal is the third largest wadi in the Eastern Desert draining into the Red Sea, and one of the best vegetated, with an estimated watershed area of some 1,840 kmē (GEF 1998). The wadi watershed includes the northern flanks of Gebel Hamata in the south, as well as the southern flanks of Gebel Nugrus in the north. Several other important wadis are encompassed in the protected area such as Wadi Abu Ghosoun, Wadi El Ringa and Wadi El Rada. Several important peaks are included such as Gebel Hamata Gebel Nugrus, Gebel Hafafit, Gebel Hamamid, Gebel Sartut and Gebel Sikeit. The shores of the region are heterogeneous in nature encompassing rocky, sandy and muddy beaches. The coastline has several important landmarks such as the headlands of Ras Baghdadi and Ras Hankorab, and Sarm El Luli bay. The marine component of the protected area encompasses a strip of marine waters of an average width of 15 km. This component includes all the important coral reefs in the region, as well as four marine islands (the Hamata archipelago and Wadi El Gemal Island). |
| Refrences | http://www.eeaa.gov.eg/english/main/protect_desc.asp |
| Show On Map |
Name | Wadi Gyraphy |
| Country | Egypt |
| Description | - |
| Refrences | - |
| Show On Map |
Name | Wadi Ibn Hammad |
| Country | Jordan |
| Description | This wadi is an 18 km gorge that crosses Jordan parallel to Wadi Hasa. Starting from Rakin and Batir on the kings highway road to Ghor al Haditha on the Dead Sea shores. Its beauty lies in the first part next to the warm springs. Where the canyons sediment on the top create a tunnel canyon where the springs rain on top of you while the walls of the canyon are painted with natural colors due to the minerals that the water contains. |
| Refrences | http://tropicaldeserttrips.com/locations/wadi-bin-hammad/ |
| Show On Map |
Name | Wadi Jawwah / Wadi Jazan |
| Country | Saudi Arabia |
| Description | The Jizan Dam, also spelled Jazan, is a gravity dam on Wadi Jizan about 16 km (9.9 mi) northeast of Abu `Arish in Jizan Province of southwestSaudi Arabia. It has several purpose to include irrigation and flood control. Located in a desert, the dam collects run-off and stores it for periodic releases downstream. Water released from the dam is distributed by two diversion dams downstream for the irrigation of 8,000 ha (20,000 acres) of land. Crops grown include sorghum with eucalyptus and tamarisk grown for anti-desertification.[1] The dam was completed in 1970 and is owned by the Ministry of Water and Electricity |
| Refrences | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jizan_Dam |
| Show On Map |
Name | Wadi Kham |
| Country | Libya |
| Description | - |
| Refrences | http://ppe-eu.protectedplanet.net/wadi-kham-protected-area |
| Show On Map |
Name | Wadi Laban Headwaters |
| Country | Saudi Arabia |
| Description | - |
| Refrences | - |
| Show On Map |
Name | Wadi Lajb / Jabal al-Qahar |
| Country | Saudi Arabia |
| Description | Isolated mountain massif in the southern Tihamah northwest of Jabal Fayfa', with elevations to over 2400 meters; endemics and Afrotropical relicts including aloes, asclepiads, and other succulents. Not yet inventoried; it is likely to have greater biological diversity than Jabal Fayfa'. Species in it Hepaticopsida (?), Bryopsida (?), Adiantum capillus-veneris (?), Aloe edentate, Aloe fleurentinorum, Aloe x qaharensis, Aloe rivierei, Aloe yemenica, Adenium obesum, Ceropegia rupicola, Cylindrilluma solenophora, Huernia laevis, Periploca visciformis, Rhytidocaulon macrolobum, Kleinia pendula, Juniperus procera, Dracaena serrulata, Diospyros mespiliformis, Euphorbia ammak, Euphorbia cuneata, Euphorbia sp. aff. Fruticosa, Enteropogon macrostachyus, Pogonatherum paniceum, Albuca pendula, Caucanthus edulis (?), Olea europaea ssp. africana (?), Epipactis veratrifolia, Eulophia petersii, Psilotum nudum, Ziziphus spina-christi, Breonadia salicina, Mimusops laurifolia, Peucedanum inaccessum, And Xerophyta arabica |
| Refrences | http://faculty.ksu.edu.sa/Alfarhan/Pages/ConservationEfforts.aspx |
| Show On Map |
Name | Wadi Qena |
| Country | Egypt |
| Description | - |
| Refrences | - |
| Show On Map |
Name | Wadi Rum Protected Area |
| Country | Jordan |
| Description | The 74,000-hectare property, inscribed as a mixed natural and cultural site, is situated in southern Jordan, near the border with Saudi Arabia. It features a varied desert landscape consisting of a range of narrow gorges, natural arches, towering cliffs, ramps, massive landslides and caverns. Petroglyphs, inscriptions and archaeological remains in the site testify to 12,000 years of human occupation and interaction with the natural environment. The combination of 25,000 rock carvings with 20,000 inscriptions trace the evolution of human thought and the early development of the alphabet. The site illustrates the evolution of pastoral, agricultural and urban activity in the region. |
| Refrences | http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1377 |
| Show On Map |
Name | Wadi Sannur Cave |
| Country | Egypt |
| Description | The protected area contains geological formations known as stalactites and stalgmites in a perfect beautiful way that formed through million years. Its formation dates back to the middle Eocene period about 60 million years. As a result of the leakage of calcium carbonate saturated water solutions through the roof of the cave, then evaporated leaving behind those minerals that accumulated taking the shape of stalactites and stalgmites. The cave extends for 700m. It is 15m wide and 15 m deep. The importance of this cave is attributed to the rarity of these natural formations in the Egypt . They shed light on the circumstances of the ancient climate in this area and the age of its formation. It gives the researchers the chance to make comparative detailed studies according to the change in the nature of the Ancient environmental circumstances that dominated the middle Eocene period . |
| Refrences | http://www.eeaa.gov.eg/english/main/protect_desc.asp |
| Show On Map |
Name | Wadi Tarj / Jabal Jandaf |
| Country | Saudi Arabia |
| Description | Exceptionally dense stand of Dracaena serrulata on a granite mountain overlooking a perennial stream in the 'Asir highlands. Species in it Hepaticopsida, Bryopsida, Adenium obesum, Commiphora gileadensis, Commiphora myrrha, Maerua crassifolia, Dracaena serrulata, Acacia seyal, Delonix elata, Moringa peregrine, Ziziphus spina-christi, Salvadora persica, Grewia tembensis |
| Refrences | http://faculty.ksu.edu.sa/Alfarhan/Pages/ConservationEfforts.aspx |
| Show On Map |