Saudi Arabia is actively fighting to preserve mangrove forests, which are an important element of environmental protection. Covering only 0.5 per cent of the world’s coastal areas, mangroves play a key role in combating climate change, purifying water, and protecting the coast from erosion.

Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Environment, Water, and Agriculture and the National Centre for Vegetation Cover Development and Combating Desertification are implementing programmes to protect and restore mangroves. They are planting mangrove trees along the Red Sea and Arabian Gulf coastlines and conducting research to restore these forests in harsh conditions.

Red Sea Global (RSG) is also actively involved in protecting mangrove forests. RSG emphasises that mangrove trees can absorb carbon five to ten times more efficiently than other plants. The company has already transplanted one million mangrove seedlings and plans to grow another two million this year.

RSG also runs the “From People to Planet” programme, which encourages people to join mangrove tree planting initiatives. This is reported by
Arab News.

Red Sea Global (RSG) was founded in July 2017 by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and is owned by the Public Investment Fund.

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