Identity area
Type of entity
Corporate body
Authorized form of name
King Khalid Wildlife Research Center
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
- Thumamah Research Centre; al-Thumamah Farm
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1987-
History
King Khalid Wildlife Research Center is a biological research facility and a wildlife observatory located at the King Khalid Royal Reserve (formerly al-Thumamah Wildlife Park) in the al-Thumamah area of northeastern Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It was established for the preservation and captive breeding of the country's endangered wildlife in 1987 during the reign of King Fahd and was managed by the Zoological Society of London under the supervision of the Saudi Wildlife Authority (now the National Center of Wildlife) before the former completely handed over administrative duties to the latter in 2016