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The FPS Council last October allocated £500 from the FPS/WWF Revolving Fund towards the purchase of buildings for the Azraq International Biological Station of which, as announced in ORYX in May 1968, Dr Bryan Nelson is Director. Azraq is a large oasis in the East Jordanian desert, a winter refuge for huge numbers of duck and wading birds, and in spring a stopping place for tens of thousands of small migrant birds. Surrounded as it is by deserts stretching away to the Saudi Arabian frontiers, the area provides the wide diversity of habitats, from lake and marsh to arid desert, that make it an excellent centre for research. An account of the area and die work of Jordanian conservationists appeared in ORYX, April 1967.

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