The Abu Dhabi Blue Carbon Demonstration Project

According to legend, the City of Abu Dhabi was founded around 1760, following the discovery of a freshwater spring on the island by a Bani Yas hunting party who were following the tracks of a gazelle. Their chief, Sheikh Dhiyab bin Isa, who lived in the Liwa crescent, ordered a settlement to be established. His son and successor, Sheikh Shakhbut bin Dhiyab, moved his headquarters to Abu Dhabi around 1795, building a fort on the island that today, much enlarged, survives as the Qasr al-Hosn. The settlement became the Emirate’s capital as it emerged in the 19 th century, deriving its economic importance from the pearling banks offshore. www.environmentalatlas.ae

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