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Abu Dhabi sits where the sands of the
Arabian desert meet the waters of the
Gulf a lot of people come here for the
glorious beaches to whiz around on their
jet skis or idle on their luxury yachts
but today I'm going to be seeing
slightly different slide to the city's
coastlines by exploring the mangroves
national park it's a pocket wilderness
that has somehow survived at the heart
of the city a splash of green is in the
urban cityscape a great way to get up
close and personal with the mangroves
and their environment and the wilderness
is to go by kayak
hey Louise hi nice to meet you too are
you all set yeah I guess this is what
we're going out in today
this is gonna be mode of transportation
you'll need one of these right matching
beautiful color on me okay
best way to get in the kayak is bump
first so great basically sit down first
then put your legs in well you've made
it look very easy now
wonderful all right professional let's
go have an adventure what are the
eastern mangroves
these are mangroves is actually a park
this is a natural marine park it's not
planted this has been around for
hundreds of years and it's a habitat for
about sixty species of birds along with
sea life along with insect life just
literally right behind me is the city
skyline all right it's not a crap yep
that's your purple tree clamming crab
they actually have a symbiotic
relationship with the tree so what they
do is they'll pull off a leaf and take
it into their little holes creates
fertilizer for the tree the tree does
attract a lot of its prey it's so nice
kayaking best way to do it
no noise pollution that's the reason why
they use kayaks it doesn't influence the
environment so nice I feel like I could
lose myself out here you feel quite
small even just out here like this like
a lush environment is stretching out all
around us as far as the eye can see does
it give you a sense of hope for the
future of the environment to see this
little pocket of nature literally right
next to or in the heart of this it does
give me hope yes provided that everybody
around this place realizes how important
this habitat is I think that it's like
such a contrast at the city it's known
for its wealth where is that here it's
free I think I think this is a bit of
that wealth to this place for me is
you