QF’s Quranic Botanic Garden marks UN day to combat desertification, drought 05 Jul 2021 - 9:24 An official waters a plant during the QBG event to mark UN's World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought. The Peninsula Doha: The Quranic Botanic Garden (QBG), the first garden in the world to exhibit all plant species mentioned in the Holy Quran, Hadith, and Sunnah, marked United Nations World Day to Combat Desertification And Drought recently, with a wild desert plant restoration event at Rawdat Al Faras in Al Nasraniya. In celebration of this day, QBG planted 15 trees of the Samor, Salma and Sidr varieties in their natural habitats, all of which are mentioned in the Holy Qur’an and Hadith and native to the Rawdat ecosystem at the Rawdat Al Faras restoration site. The seeds for these plants were collected from environmental areas in Qatar that face the pressures of land degradation, camping, grazing, and infrastructure development and then germinated and propagated by the QBG team at its Conservation Center.