Yemen and UAE protecting endangered local bird

ABU DHABI � Following the guidelines of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), Yemen and the United Arab Emirates have begun taking action for the captive propagation of Houbara buzzards, endemic birds in Yemen.

The convention is designed to conserve one of the most rare and endangered species of Houbaras in the Arabia Peninsula.

Some of the birds will be taken to a sanctuary belonging to the Environmental Research Center in Abu Dhabi.

Eggs from the birds will be collected over the next five years and thirty percent of the preserved offspring will be placed in their original areas of proliferation in Yemen.

A Yemeni-Emirates team will be studying the migratory Houbara buzzard in Shabwa until the end of this year. The team of experts from Yemen's Ministry of Water and Environment and the Abu Dhabi Environmental Research and Wildlife Development Agency (ERWDA) has researched the ecology of the endangered species in the provinces of Shabwa and Mahra.

The team succeeded in attaching a device to a Houbara buzzard in Mahra enabling it to be tracked by satellite during its migration.

Last year the ERWDA and Yemen's environment ministry signed an agreement for the captive propagation and reintroduction of the Yemeni Houbara buzzard, known to science as the Chlamydotismacqueenii.

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