The reserve is a sanctuary for flora and fauna which stretches for 320 square kilometers and it ranges in typography to include hills, level ground, muddy patches, and beaches.

It is surrounded by a fence running through 110 kilometers.

It is located at the north-east part of Kuwait, near Subiya. The wildlife to be protected within this territory includes rare animals and plants and some that are near extinction, and this is part of a national effort to preserve a strategic and indigenous pool of wildlife. There is also the aim of encouraging youth to experience volunteer work.

The reserve's teams work on restoring indigenous flora and fauna and re-introducing and planting once common plants. The plants which were close to extinction due to factors like over-grazing, urban encroachment on natural habitats, and over-hunting certain animals, he noted.

The Sabah Al-Ahmad Nature Reserve of Kuwait (formerly known as The National Park of Kuwait) was established in the early 1990s to protect and restore the Kuwaiti environment, and had its duties doubled and made more complicated after the Iraqi occupation and the 1991 war to liberate Kuwait.