Why is a desert like the UAE becoming an increasingly important biodiversity conservation area?

The UAE is rich in biodiversity as it has one of the most enviromentally valuble and rare plants and species. For example Mangroves trees mangroves trees are known to survive highly saline water and also considered as great CO2 sinks.  " Coral Reefs" Coral reefs are very important role for marine ecosystem locally and globally.  A lot of coral reefs around the world had already bleached "no longer functional" due to climate change. However UAE coral reefs were found to survive higher climates compared to other coral reefs. These are only few but very imporant ascpets from UAE ecosystem that the country is working hard to conserve.

. Al Maha play an increasingly important role in nature and wildlife conservation. ... and bio-diversity will become increasingly important as Dubai continues to develop