United Arab Emirates

United Arab Emirates is located on the Arabian Peninsula in the Middle East. Its northern border meets the Persian Gulf, and the eastern shore borders the Gulf of Oman. Deserts comprise the landscape with mountains rising in the east. Most of the country is used for human activities, in its majority by rangeland. United Arab Emirates has high biodiversity rarity of terrestrial land vertebrates at a global scale. When analysed as single taxons, the rarity of mammals and reptiles is also high. The rarity of marine fish and mammals is also high. Challenges to biodiversity include air pollution; rapid population growth; water scarcity; desertification; and coastal pollution from oil spills.