Cabinet approves handing over part of Petrified Forest Protectorate for private housing development: The Cabinet approved on Sunday a decision to establish an EGP 3 bn housing project on part of the land of the Petrified Forest Protectorate outside of Maadi, Al Borsa reported. The environment of the area has already suffered from nearby construction, and Borsa notes that the Ministry of Housing had so far been prevented from pursuing development on the protectorate from the Ministry of Environment since at least 2014. Some smaller sized photos of the area may be viewed from the Ask Aladdin site, which sagely notes that from the perspective of a “non geologist or a person who is not a nature lover, there is nothing much to see in the reserve accept [sic] stones, sands and rocks.” (View images of the Petrified Forest Protectorate)