Reflection on Sultan’s presentation

Thursday, 25 May 2012

Reflection on Sultan’s presentation

Date: 24.05.2012

Time: 1100

Venue: W103

Topic: Desert pollution

Sultan started the presentation by welcoming everyone and explained that he was going to talk about desert pollution. He had nearly 20 picture slides of the desert; some he took when he went camping in Dubai, Sharjah and Ras Al Khaimah in winter. Sultan was confident; he went through the slides explaining why desert pollution is dangerous especially to animals and the environment.

 Winter is the time to go to the desert in the U.A.E. when people run away from traffic and noise to relax but bad habits come along with them, like garbage disposal. A lot of campers don’t clean up what they leave behind especially plastic bags, plastic bottles and glass or aluminum cans. When campers leave food, animals will eat everything even plastic bags and that causes animals to choke. Sultan showed some solutions the government came up with like in January 2012; the foreign minister of the U.A.E. Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan pointed out on his account in tweeter encouraging the people to participate in a desert cleaning campaign; the response was very good and a lot of people joined the campaign.

 He also showed some solutions the government made, like developing desert reserves; the most famous are Qasr Al Sarab in Liwa, Al Maha resort in Dubai and Banyan resort in Ras Al Khaimah. As Sultan was going through the slides he answered questions clearly.