A new park with more than 60 species of indigenous trees and plants has opened on The Palm Jumeirah.

Ittihad Park covers more than 10 hectares and is surrounded by a 3.2 kilometre jogging track. It is behind the Golden Mile residential development and runs under the track for the Palm Jumeirah Monorail.

Ali Rashid Lootah, chairman of the property developer Nakheel, said making the idea a reality was challenging because landscape designers involved were not used to working with native plants.

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