{"id":14,"date":"2014-10-05T20:55:50","date_gmt":"2014-10-05T20:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/friendsofabunakhla\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2014-12-30T14:29:35","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T14:29:35","slug":"the-past","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/friendsofabunakhla\/the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/friendsofabunakhla\/files\/2014\/10\/ABUNAKHLA1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-145\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/friendsofabunakhla\/files\/2014\/10\/ABUNAKHLA1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"ABUNAKHLA1\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/friendsofabunakhla\/files\/2014\/10\/ABUNAKHLA1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/friendsofabunakhla\/files\/2014\/10\/ABUNAKHLA1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/friendsofabunakhla\/files\/2014\/10\/ABUNAKHLA1-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Abu Nakhla Constructed Wetlands marks the biggest Treated Sewage Effluent reservoir in the Gulf state of Qatar. The wetlands are considered as a good ecological and attractive habitat for various animals, as it is a refuge for the survival of these animals in the middle of the desert (Abdulfatih, et al., 2002).<\/p>\n<p>It is located in Zone 81, approximately 12 kilometers at the outskirts of the city of Doha, Qatar along the Southern borders of Abu Nakhla Village. the surrounded landmarks:<br \/>\n\u2022 Mubeirek Residential Village (Residential use)<br \/>\n\u2022 New Industrial Area (Industrial &amp; Residential uses)<br \/>\n\u2022 Aqua Park Qatar- Water Theme Recreational Park (Recreational use)<br \/>\n\u2022 Al Udeid Military Base (Governmental use)<\/p>\n<p>Vegetation system is divided into two distinctive zones throughout Abu Nakhla: Littoral and Wetland. Each of these zones embraces distinctive types of species.<br \/>\n\u2022 Littoral Zone maintains shallow water where light can easily reach the bottom floor of the pond . It contains several kinds of species such as fishes, frogs, and birds, and invertebrates.<br \/>\n\u2022 On the other hand, Wetland Zones contains numerous plants that germinate and grow in such habits where gentle slopes and flats are more frequent.<br \/>\n\u2022 Moreover, Eastern and Northern Banks of Abu Nakhla pond have high density of water plants<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abu Nakhla Constructed Wetlands marks the biggest Treated Sewage Effluent reservoir in the Gulf state of Qatar. The wetlands are considered as a good ecological and attractive habitat for various animals, as it is a refuge for the survival of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/friendsofabunakhla\/the-past\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/friendsofabunakhla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/friendsofabunakhla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/friendsofabunakhla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/friendsofabunakhla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/270"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/friendsofabunakhla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/friendsofabunakhla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/friendsofabunakhla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.qu.edu.qa\/friendsofabunakhla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}