They have not been confirmed in true desert or heavily forested mountains.
Southeast of the border between Syria and Iraq starts true desert.
It was only a short distance from the shack to the edge of the true desert.
Down here we were in a true desert.
The Kalahari supports some animals and plants because most of it is not a true desert.
It's a desert, true, but even deserts have their own ecologies.
The area's climate is too humid to be considered a true desert.
But soon they were out in the true desert.
In a few minutes the ground, so lush with vegetation a half hour before, was bare as the true desert.
By afternoon the land had become true desert.