About Us
Binish Roobas
Binish Roobas took his degree in Zoology at University of Kerala and worked in Kerala as a naturalist guide. In the UAE, he has pursued his interests as a naturalist and photographer as an avocation. He has shared his efforts through regular short reports and photographs in the monthly newsletter of the Dubai Natural History Group (Gazelle), longer papers in the periodic journal of the Emirates Natural History Group, Abu Dhabi (Tribulus), occasional short talks, and as a leader of natural history field trips in the UAE and abroad.
Binish has been responsible for the recognition and study of several rare UAE animal species, notably Walton's mudskipper and Bosk's fringe-toed lizard, and has contributed to the study of several others, including two butterflies new to the UAE (the Arabian Grizzled Skipper and the Cycad Cupid), the colorful damselfly Ischnura nursei, and the tiger beetle Callytron monalisa. Binish has also paid special attention to UAE butterflies, moths and dragonflies generally.
Gary Feulner
Gary Feulner has had a lifelong interest in evolutionary biology, biogeography and ecology, as well as the evolution of the earth itself. He holds degrees in geology from Princeton and Yale universities and did academic field work in geology on three continents.
Although he went on to practice professionally as a corporate lawyer, he continued to indulge his scientific interests in the UAE, where for more than 30 years he has explored widely (much of it in the era before fences), observing and studying a broad range of animals, plants and natural phenomena.
Gary is the author or co-author of the definitive surveys of the wadi fish, freshwater and land snails and dragonflies of the UAE and northern Oman, as well as the flora of the mountains of the Musandam peninsula (the Ru'us al-Jibal) and the flora of the extensive ultrabasic environment of Wadi Wurayah National Park in the northern Hajar Mountains of Fujairah, UAE.
He has also published on the geology of the UAE and on discrete aspects of local climate, geomorphology and the behavior and/or ecology of selected plant and animal species, including insects, fish, amphibians, reptiles and intertidal molluscs. His extensive field records have made substantial contributions to databases for UAE/Oman reptiles and UAE/Oman butterflies. He has been Chairman of the Dubai Natural History Group since 1995.
Binish Roobas took his degree in Zoology at University of Kerala and worked in Kerala as a naturalist guide. In the UAE, he has pursued his interests as a naturalist and photographer as an avocation. He has shared his efforts through regular short reports and photographs in the monthly newsletter of the Dubai Natural History Group (Gazelle), longer papers in the periodic journal of the Emirates Natural History Group, Abu Dhabi (Tribulus), occasional short talks, and as a leader of natural history field trips in the UAE and abroad.
Binish has been responsible for the recognition and study of several rare UAE animal species, notably Walton's mudskipper and Bosk's fringe-toed lizard, and has contributed to the study of several others, including two butterflies new to the UAE (the Arabian Grizzled Skipper and the Cycad Cupid), the colorful damselfly Ischnura nursei, and the tiger beetle Callytron monalisa. Binish has also paid special attention to UAE butterflies, moths and dragonflies generally.
Gary Feulner
Gary Feulner has had a lifelong interest in evolutionary biology, biogeography and ecology, as well as the evolution of the earth itself. He holds degrees in geology from Princeton and Yale universities and did academic field work in geology on three continents.
Although he went on to practice professionally as a corporate lawyer, he continued to indulge his scientific interests in the UAE, where for more than 30 years he has explored widely (much of it in the era before fences), observing and studying a broad range of animals, plants and natural phenomena.
Gary is the author or co-author of the definitive surveys of the wadi fish, freshwater and land snails and dragonflies of the UAE and northern Oman, as well as the flora of the mountains of the Musandam peninsula (the Ru'us al-Jibal) and the flora of the extensive ultrabasic environment of Wadi Wurayah National Park in the northern Hajar Mountains of Fujairah, UAE.
He has also published on the geology of the UAE and on discrete aspects of local climate, geomorphology and the behavior and/or ecology of selected plant and animal species, including insects, fish, amphibians, reptiles and intertidal molluscs. His extensive field records have made substantial contributions to databases for UAE/Oman reptiles and UAE/Oman butterflies. He has been Chairman of the Dubai Natural History Group since 1995.