Administratively, they lie within Bou Zedjar municipality in Aïn Témouchent Province, Algeria.

The islands and surrounding waters constitute the Iles Habibas Marine Nature Reserve.

The islands' scrub vegetation includes Ephedra fragilis, Withania frutescens and Frankenia corymbosa.

The archipelago has been designated an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports significant breeding populations of Audouin's gulls and Eleonora's falcons.

[5] By the end of 2006, a project to rehabilitate and maintain the islands was to commence, backed by Algerian and French funding.