http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=6180
"Established in 1989, the Petrified Forest Protected Area, outside Maadi, was set up to preserve a piece of fossilized forest dating from some 35 million years ago when Egypt’s climate was both cooler and wetter, and the vegetation and fauna very different from today. It is an area of great geological significance, an outdoor laboratory for students and a haven for its current desert denizens. Its importance as such was recognized in its declaration as a protected area, yet now, barely 16 years later, the Ministry of Housing and Development allegedly wants to build over a significant portion of the reserve, citing “lack of development and construction in [the] Protected Area."
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