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The wildlife of Oman is the flora and fauna of this country in the southeastern corner of the Arabian Peninsula, with coasts on the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea. The climate is hot and dry, apart from the southeastern coast, and the country offers a variety of habitats for wildlife including mountains, valleys, deserts, coastal plains and ...
This is a list of the mammal species recorded in Oman. There are at least 62 mammal species in Oman that have been assessed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), of these, one is critically endangered, four are endangered, eight are vulnerable, and two are near threatened.
The Al Saleel National Park is a wildlife reserve in the Sharqiyah region of Oman.. The park extends over an area of 220 square kilometres (85 sq mi), and is predominantly covered by forests of acacia trees.
Jabal Samhan Nature Reserve [1] (Arabic: محمية جبل سمحان) is a nature reserve in the area of Jabal Samḥān (Arabic: جَبَل سَمْحَان, "Mount Samhan") in Dhofar, Oman. It has an area of 4,500 square kilometres (1,700 sq mi) and has no permanent population. [2]
A list of protected areas of Oman: [1] Al Jabal Algharbi Nature Reserve; Aldhahra Nature Reserve; Alburaimi Oasis Nature Reserve; Oryx Nature Reserve; Turtle Reserve; Ad Dimaniyat Islands Reserve; Al Saleel National Park (As Salil Natural Park) Jabal Samhan Nature Reserve; Al Jabal Al Akhdar Scenic Reserve; Western Hajer Stars Lights Reserve ...
The Wildlife Reserve in Al Wusta, formerly the Arabian Oryx Sanctuary, is a nature reserve in the Omani Central Desert and Coastal Hills. In a much larger form, it was included in the UNESCO World Heritage list, but in 2007 it became the first site to be removed from the World Heritage list. [ 1 ]
Wildlife of Oman This page was last edited on 30 June 2023, at 10:30 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License ...
The Arabian tahr was first described in 1894 by Oldfield Thomas who proposed the name Hemitragus jayakari for zoological specimens collected in Oman Jebel Taw. [6] It was separated into the newly created genus Arabitragus in 2005 on the basis of a study on the molecular phylogeny of the group.