One of the goals of the late Shaikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan was to turn Dubai from desert to green paradise. Shaikh Zayed discovered that 15,000 years ago, the Arabian Peninsula was enveloped in thick forests and full of greenery. The land got transformed to a desert only after it was exposed to a long spell of drought that also forced its inhabitants to move in search of water. Shaikh Zayed charted a course to return the desert to its greener origins by increasing the number of trees, farms and palm orchards.
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