Adonis describes the ethos of pre-Islamic society by the famous line ?? ?? ????? ??? (were that man were a stone). This melancholic longing for self-abnegation— the desire for consciousness to dissolve into the desert sublime— pervades the language’s greatest early poems and set up an aesthetic ideal that has influenced each new age. Even today in the high-tech cities of the gulf, the desert is revered and mystified by artists and instagrammers alike. The respect and sense of wonder for the desert ecosystem of the Arabian peninsula has produced some of the most beautiful depictions of the natural world in any language, and about the desert no less. However, the use of ecocriticism for examining this tradition is still in its infancy. This paper will look at some of the brand new ecocritical scholarship on Arabic poetry in order its influence on a new genre of Arabic writing on the desert: Twitter. In particular, the posts of the Kuwaiti engineer and labor activist Fanis al-Ajami. Mr. al-Ajami posts unsettling videos of poachers and murdered animals in order to bring awareness about environmental conservation in his country. As well, he highlights stories of stewards and animal lovers: a local man cuddling with his pet Hyrax, kids petting a monitor lizard and learning that it’s harmless to humans. In both his rhetoric on conservation, and the active conversations taking place around his posts, we see the legacy of the pre-Islamic ethos towards the desert, and an attempt to wield Islamic ethics for the sake of environmental stewardship.