Uploaded on 2015-11-25 by AssilaWalid

**Provisioning services:** Raw material Perhaps, what Abu Dhabi benefits most from its natural ecosystem is the natural gas and oil. It boosts its economy and provides a great bountiful source of income that not many cities in the world can have like. ![Abu Dhabi oil extract port][1] Food: the Arabian Gulf in addition provides a great source of local fish. These fish are of local species and types and a great source of food for the local community. ![Mini fishing harbor][2] ![Local fish types][3] The desert provides delicious and nutritious food unlike the stereotype that its barren, its sweet dates ! Although date farms are all around Abu Dhabi, these palm trees are also farmed in public parks and along the main streets. ![Palm trees cultivating dates in public parks][4] **Regulating services** Abu Dhabi cares greatly about planting trees and providing good irrigation to a vast amount of them amid the dry desert. These trees are to provide shade, cool surrounding temperatures, and clean the air from the extensive car traffic of the city. ![Trees in the city of Abu Dhabi][5] ![Trees as an integral planning regulating element][6] **Habitat services** The ecosystem of the desert is quite limited however around oasis there is an abundance of diversities in animal life. And in Abu Dhabi, this is especially so with birds. Birds are kept wild and are everywhere, in the cityscape, t the Gulf shores, and in oasis around the city. ![Birds living in Abu Dhabi, Black-winged stilt][7] Wild Life parks contribute also to an effort to sustain diversities of animals and regulating the ecosystem by preventing extinction of local animals. The Arabian Wildlife Park is home to more than 10,000 free roaming animals and takes up more than half of the island near to Abu Dhabi city, part of the Abu Dhabi Emirate. ![Arabian Wild Life Park][8] **Cultural services** Tourism Sadiyat cultural district Unprecedented in scale and scope, Saadiyat Cultural District is set to become a global cultural hub, housing the world's largest single concentration of premier cultural assets. These will include the Louvre Abu Dhabi, Zayed National Museum and Guggenheim Abu Dhabi. ![Saadiyat Cultural District][9] Culture in Abu Dhabi is preseved both in traditions, cuisines, desert life and some architecture sites. Classified by UNESCO as ‘cultural sites’, Al Ain world heritage locations include its six oases and the archaeological sites of Bida bint Saud, Hafeet and Hili, all testimonies of sedentary human occupation of a desert region since the Neolithic period, with vestiges of many prehistoric cultures. The ‘remarkable vestiges’ cited by UNESCO include circular stone tombs (dating circa 2500 B.C.), wells and a wide range of adobe constructions: residential buildings, towers, palaces and administrative buildings. Moreover, Hili features one of the oldest examples of the sophisticated falaj irrigation system which dates back to the Iron Age. Al Ain vestiges provide important testimony to the transition of cultures in the region from hunting and gathering to sedentarisation. ![Heritage of Abu Dhabi site][10] Spiritual experience and sense of place This is definitely experienced from the desert life which is greatly serviced and excellently presented for tourists and locals alike. ![Arabian Nights Village][11] ![Arabian Nights outdoor tent sleeping][12] The Al Badeyah desert camp, nestled in the desert dunes of Al Khaznah, gives visitors a unique insight into UAE traditions and customs and allows them to enjoy an authentic Arabian experience under the stars. ![Al Badeyah eyes Tourism][13] [1]: http://arabiangazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Al-Kakara-oil-field-uae-e1331636136216.jpg [2]: https://hereinabudhabi.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/20130311-114814.jpg [3]: http://www.timeoutabudhabi.com/images/outlets/fishmarket/innerbig/2014_2_fishmarket_innerbig.jpg [4]: http://www.uaeinteract.com/news/article_pics/uae-62755.jpg [5]: http://static.gulfnews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1461662!/images11/3287798044.jpg [6]: http://i.imgur.com/2vocgZe.png [7]: http://cdn1.arkive.org/media/4A/4A4C24F9-716A-4F41-A001-0C5C65ABE2F6/Presentation.Large/Black-winged-stilt-side-view.jpg [8]: http://visitabudhabi.ae/DataFolder/Images/Thumbnails/900x600//arabian-wild-life-park-0007.jpg [9]: http://visitabudhabi.ae/DataFolder/Images/Thumbnails/900x600//saadiyat-cultural-district-2014.jpg [10]: http://visitabudhabi.ae/DataFolder/Images/Thumbnails/900x600//unesco-sites-0009.jpg [11]: http://visitabudhabi.ae/DataFolder/Images/Thumbnails/900x600//arabian-nights-village-0001.jpg [12]: http://visitabudhabi.ae/DataFolder/Images/Thumbnails/900x600//arabian-nights-village-0002.jpg [13]: http://visitabudhabi.ae/DataFolder/Images/Thumbnails/900x600//al-badayah-eyes-toursim-003.JPG