The Venue
Emirates International Endurance Village
Sheikh Mansoor's ulimate, crowning achievement in Endurance to date has been in the field of administering and staging the sport. His extraordinary Emirates International Endurance Village, inaugurated in December 2002, encompasses modern technology such as heart monitors and the latest computer administration systems, with traditional Arab architecture. All this makes makes for an incomparable venue and a dramatic home for the sport.
Al Wathba Nature Preserve
... The programmes, excerpts of a major film made for ERWDA, entitled Environmental Oasis, included a review of environmental research, incorporating studies of the botany of the desert and of breeding colonies of seabirds on Qarnein, as well as examples of the positive aspects of man's relationship with wildlife and the environment, such as the captive breeding programme for endangered wildlife on the island of Sîr BanîYâs and the utilization of surplus recycled sewage for the creation of a wildlife reserve and bird sanctuary at the Al Wathba lakes near Abu Dhabi, site of the flamingo breeding colony.
SHEIKH MANSOOR - A HERITAGE OF THE HORSE
To say that horsemanship is part of Sheikh Mansoor bin Zayed Al Nahyan
would be an understatement. The culture of the horse exists in the
very fibre of the Al Nahyan family and has been so for millennia. UAE
President Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, patriarch of the family,
as well as the nation, passed on to all his children an intrinsic
understanding of the horse, both as an animal and a cultural icon.
The Arabian horse continues to be an symbol for the Arab nation and, as such, Sheikh Zayed instructed his sons, was the responsibility of Arab nobility. Sheikh Mansoor's immediate family boasts dozens of renowned Arabian breeders and owners.