Abu Dhabi, February 13: The Municipality of Abu Dhabi City has won the Greenery Prize of the 10th Arab Towns Organisation Award which was held in Doha, Qatar on Thursday.
The Arab Towns Organisation Award is held every three years for Arab cities that have made significant improvement in their areas. Nominations are received from Arab scientific institutions such as universities, specialised scientific institutes, research centres, and municipalities of member towns.
Abu Dhabi City won the Greenery Prize for developing a well-rehearsed scientific plan for expanding and maintaining the green areas of the city, introducing plants suitable to the local habitat, and addressing the beatification aspects in parks and ensuring security of their visitors.
The municipality has played a leading role in expanding the greenery across the emirate. The plantation along roads, townships and parks in the city covers around 1,250 hectares, while the number of trees outside the city is in excess of 5.5 million spanning an area exceeding 27,000 hectares.
The municipality is now engaged in a scheme of reshaping the greenery all over the city and external roads according to a classification criteria aligned with the priorities of conservation of the environment and soil, and its aesthetic aspects.
The greenery and forestation programme of Abu Dhabi emirate provides a unique model for the region since it has succeeded in an area dominated by harsh environmental and unfavourable conditions for growth of plants.
For these projects, huge technological works were involved including irrigation, piping, construction of dams, stations and other customised engineering works.
–Agencies