The boats were already circling Kubbar Island by the time the Kuwait Environmental Lens team arrived. Yachts and day-trippers ringed the shoreline, families cooling off in the shallows, children ...

On Kubbar Island, an uninhabited Kuwaiti island located about 30 km east off the country's coast, flocks of lesser crested terns, a sea bird distributed in the areas from the Red Sea to the western ...