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Surrounded by the Ajloun Forest Reserve, rising above the exposed cliff of an old quarry, the Royal Academy for Nature Conservation is the first center in the Arab world specialized in offering training on the protection of nature and sustainable development.
The Center is open for visitors, who besides of getting acquainted with its activities and educational programmes, can enjoy the restaurant overlooking the forest, and buy beautiful handicrafts and traditional food produced by local communities.
The Academy's building is one of Jordan's contemporary architectural gems. Ammar Khammash, a 2019 laureate of the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture, proposed this abandoned quarry as location, with the philosophy of using parts of nature which have been injured by man in the past, instead of adding a new intervention on virgin land.
The Ajloun Forest Reserve was established in 1987 by the Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature (RSCN). The reserve protects an area of 13 km2 with a wide range of plant and animal biodiversity, supports the neighbor communities, designs public awareness programs, features hiking trails of various lengths and difficulty, and offers accomodation all year round in comfortable wooden cabins.
Royal Academy for Nature Conservation
500 m from the Ajloun Reserve's Visitor Center
8 km from the town of Ajloun
75 km northwest of Amman
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