ADEN: Yemen’s Al-Heswa nature reserve was once hailed as a beacon of conservation efforts by the United Nations, but civil war has turned it into a rubbish-strewn wasteland reeking of sewage. The ticket office has been abandoned at the entrance to the 19-hectare site in Yemen’s southern city of Aden, where trees have been cut down and construction waste dumped. What was long a
Yemen's Al-Heswa nature reserve was once hailed as a beacon of conservation efforts by the UN, but civil war has turned it into a rubbish-strewn wasteland reeking of sewage. The ticket office has been abandoned at the entrance to the 19ha site in Yemen’s southern city of Aden, where trees have been cut down and construction waste dumped.
Yemen's Al-Heswa nature reserve was once hailed as a beacon of conservation efforts by the United Nations, but civil war has turned it into a rubbish-strewn wasteland reeking of sewage.
Yemen's Al-Heswa nature reserve was once hailed as a beacon of conservation efforts by the United Nations, but civil war has turned it into a rubbish-strewn wasteland reeking of sewage. The ticket office has been abandoned at the entrance to the 19-hectare (47-acre) site in Yemen's southern city of Aden, where trees have been cut down and construction waste dumped.What was long a haven for flamingos and other migratory birds is now swarmed by crows.