Maintaining biological diversity at different levels can only be reached by the conservation of the identifiable populations. The Biodiversity Convention recognizes in-situ conservation as the primary approach for biodiversity conservation. The establishment of protected areas system can achieve this. Ex-situ conservation includes cultivation or maintaining organisms in captivity, tissue culture, gene banks such as seed banks, sperm and ova banks. The Arabian Gulf region extends from Shatt Al-Arab and the coastal lowlands in the north to the Strait of Hormuz and the high mountains of Oman in the south.
Various ecosystems are present in the region.
Terrestrial areas include jabals, coastal plains, sabkhas, natural fresh water springs, marshes and coastal mudflats. Marine ecosystems include mangrove swamps, seagrass beds, coral reefs and small offshore islands.