Zoo
Al Hefaiyah Mountain Conservation Centre
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
🦒 Zoo or wildlife park, United Arab Emirates 12 spp. present
Al Hefaiyah Mountain Conservation Centre is a wildlife reserve and visitor centre located west of the coastal town of Kalba in the Emirate of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
24.993° N 56.325° E
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Essentials
Entrance
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Tourism
High
Species present
12
speciesOpened
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Size
Medium
What visitors say
🦒 Animals in captivity
LC
Pharaoh Eagle-Owl
Bubo ascalaphus
LC
Saw-scaled Viper
Echis carinatus
LC
Diadem Snake
Spalerosophis diadema
Sinai Agama
Pseudotrapelus sinaitus
Before you go
Where is Al Hefaiyah Mountain Conservation Centre?
United Arab Emirates
Al Hefaiyah Mountain Conservation Centre is a zoo or wildlife park in the United Arab Emirates. Its coordinates are 24.993° N, 56.325° E. The nearest national park in our atlas is Gir National Park, about 1,545 km away.
What animals can you see at Al Hefaiyah Mountain Conservation Centre?
12 species
Citizen-science photos record 12 species at Al Hefaiyah Mountain Conservation Centre, including House Crow, Brown-necked Raven, Pharaoh Eagle-Owl, Saw-scaled Viper and Caracal. Those with a page of their own in our atlas show the odds of seeing them in the wild.
Where can you see the animals of Al Hefaiyah Mountain Conservation Centre in the wild?
House Crow: Keoladeo National Park
Some of the animals photographed at Al Hefaiyah Mountain Conservation Centre also live in the parks and cities we cover: House Crow (about 40% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Keoladeo National Park), Brown-necked Raven (about 20% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Luxor) and Caracal (about 30% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in West Coast National Park).
When did Al Hefaiyah Mountain Conservation Centre open and how big is it?
14 ha
Al Hefaiyah Mountain Conservation Centre, a zoo or wildlife park in the United Arab Emirates, covers about 14 ha, according to Wikidata and OpenStreetMap. Today 12 species are photographed there.
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Sources: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · Wikidata (CC0) · iNaturalist observers · Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)