It is always fun walking and exploring the treasures and beauties of the desert. I love to walk and explore in the desert. Desert is the ocean of the sand but there is no Shark and no Stingrays. You can find beautiful and unique flora, fauna, sand dunes, songs of the air blowing, and sometimes a desert storm. Desert is a paradise but you have to choose a good time/weather to roam in the paradise. We have 3 months to go in the desert and inhale long breaths in the open and wide horizons of the desert.

We have promising results with the camel manure compost. We need to go into further investigations and details. We really need institutional, technical, and other types of collaboration to proceed with this precious work.

Camel manure is a worthwhile farm agent but considered as low grade farmyard manure. Here, in our camel farm with collaboration of Horticulturis friend Shah Hussain, we have conducted trials to decompose camel manure balls (CMB) and produce a good quality compost. Here we have very good, promising and appealing results as we have harvested a good quality rotten manure.

The magical roots of Cyperus Conglomeratus grass of the desert specially engineered to survive and sustain in the desert

Sometimes we think the camel is thin and the othertimes we think it is obessed. We need more to understand the real body condition scoring of the camels.

I have named this plant (Zygophyllum qatarense) as the camel ice-cream species because the camel eats lesser quantity but with very much desire.

Thee is always a symbiotic relationship between camels and desert flora is incredible.

I have learned much about the camels, their preferences, and the desert's flora. Zygophyllum has a very bitter taste and saltish plant because of its' high salts contents and some level of alkaloids (which depress the appetite of the animals, though camels have higher tolerable levels for alkaloids). Such biochemical molecules in the bushes like Zygophyllum sp. depress the appetite as well as poisonous for some types of livestock. Producing such molecules (alkaloids, saponin, etc) is the strategy of the plants to save their race from the grazing animals, therefore Zygophylum qatarense is browsed by camels to a certain level but not minimized to the ground level.

camel is a calm, lovely and dream animal. We love the camel and the camel loves us.

A close view of the citrulus plant, halting the sand to spread by fabricating a carpet of the shoot on the sand.

Camel is a dreamer. They think very deep and they yawn very long, they are intelligent and they are lovely.

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Though very small and soft in size and texture respectively, the termites are the strongest creature in the world. They can digest the hardest and toughiest objects like wood and the CMB in the desert.

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"You might wonder if I'm stealing water from your crops when you see me thrive in your fields," the ghaf tree says. I'm not! My taproot descends to a depth of 35 to 60 meters to get water. That almost equates to one of your football fields' width! I actually slow down dust storms by serving as a windbreak to safeguard your farm. In addition, my roots keep sand dunes stable and stop the desert from encroaching."

Each part and product of the Prosopis cineraria tree is precious, useful, and consumable. The leaves and pods are cooked as well as consumed as salads. The animals, especially camels, love their twigs and pods.

Prosopis cineraria is an evergreen tree, grow up to 25m tall; trunk un-branched for several meters; branches droop, giving the canopy a rounded appearance with short triangular spines between leaves nodes; bark is fissured or cracked providing shelter to different insects. The tree is also frost hardy and tolerant of temperatures up to 50 oC.

Each challenge gives a lesson. The droughts have taught the wildlife to contact the domestic livestock.

Zygophylum is engineered with specialized qualitative traits, making it the most reseleient flora in the derest. At the moment, I have lost some pictures, camel eating Zygophyllum but I'm quite optimistic that soon, I shall be able to share with you. Please consider my suggestion, planting native plants like Leptadenia, Haloxllon, Zygophyllum, and other shrubs and trees in your lawns so that your kids are enriched with the knowledge of native flora and fauna as the native plants act as a wildlife sanctuary. The local people in Arabia and Persia have been using this plant for various purposes, ranging from medication (human and animals) to disinfecting/cleaning clothes and other stuff, and insect repletion to rodents control.

Zygophyllum qatarense is not only a source of food for desert creatures but had been used for the treatment of different ailments in the remote areas of the desert. The aqueous extract of the plant is used for different ailments which are provided in details.

Zygophyllum qatarense is really a unique flora with almost 0 % water loss as it has special leaves and small white hair which divert the moisture of transparation back to the plant

Zygophylum qatarense is really a unique flora with almost 0 % water loss. It absorb moisture from the atmosphere and the scatter roots in the sands absorb moisture from the due in the cooler hours of the night. I call this plant as water trap in the desert. The plant redirect or reabsorb the moisture of the transpiration with the help of the tiny hairs. This plants is really very strange and unique. It is called as Harram in Arabic.

Tribulus is a very important flora of the drylands of the world, especially the aridlands. It survives and sustains its race in the extremely harsh weathering conditions of its habitat/s. Its yellow flowers are very attractive and catch a lot of birds and insects resulting in more pollination. Not only valued as camel food and ethnomedicine but Tribulus is home to precious fauna of the Desert.

Pistacia khinjuk. Family: Anacardiaceae. A small tree. Wild pistachio. Found on mountain slopes. Common in Zhob. Pashto name: Shinay ?? ? in Pashtu. The tree is locally called Wanna and a subtype is called Ozgai.

A little Zebra decided to stay with camels after the mother died. She is quite happy with the camels.

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Zygophyllum qataranse ???&, a highly adapted bush of the desert. You will see this plant green all round the year if there is rain or not. The camels fulfill its salts and water requirements from this shrub.

Here are some flowers and a pod of the Acacia nilotica in Alain, UAE

It is an olive tree, centuries-old, witnessing a long history. Maybe millions of people, animals, and small creatures have lived and survived on it. Such trees act as mountains of Carbon. We should save such treasure of humanity. ?"?? I call such trees the living fossils.

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n local herbariums, we can conserve, study and use the wild floral diversity of a specific ecosystem for specific purpose. It can be a great asset for the humanity and the knowledge will be shared at global level to benefit the humanity. Each flora is an asset as well as an institution. The flora is an organization of highly adapted traits and a lot of information (knowledge) are linked to it. The native people have a huge set of knowledge, they have gained from their ancestry since unknown time about the flora, ecosystems and the uses of the plant/s for the health and well-being of humanity.

Due to the fact that camel milk has the highest amount of lactoferrin compared to other species, so it can be a valuable source of lactoferrin that can reduce bacterial growth, prevent bacterial adhesion and biofilm formation.

Each nomadic or camel community have their own taste and methodology. Some give smokey while the others give oily taste. The smoke of juniper leaves gives a special aroma to the Shubat. Some rub the fat tail of sheep with the inside of the container for shubat. Some women add risen, dried apricot, and other locally available fruits, etc. The shubat has a very strong sour taste and long-fermented one has an acidic taste.

Camel milk is very valuable natural pharmacy. It is treasured with unique molecules in magical compositions. Collectively camel milk works as functional food and heals many complication found in our health system because of our food and climate change.

Livestock is the future, forget about the vegans' stories. Livestock serves humanity in any way, they play pivotal and multipurpose roles. Livestock is not only for food, its role is multidimensional. We need to understand and admire its role before it is too late.

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