Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Tourism Project Aims to Plant over 15 Mln Plants

Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Tourism Project Aims to Plant over 15 Mln Plants

The Red Sea Development Company (TRSDC), the operator of the giant Red Sea tourism project in western Saudi Arabia, seeks to plant more than 15 million plants and saplings to enrich the green cover in the project's environment, through its one-million square meters nursery.

Head of Corporate Environment and Sustainability at TRSDC Raed al-Baseet confirmed that environmental monitoring is the permanent companion for the project from the planning, initial and construction phases until its completion.

The company is seeking to increase the percentage of seaweeds that absorb carbon dioxide and increase the percentage of mangrove trees and coral reefs.

"This is in addition to its endeavors to identify areas with high environmental values, something that the company has already achieved through approving the development of 22 islands out of 90 at the location to make them a tourist destination with a different environmental character.“

Since the beginning of the project, the area was designed to become a destination for renewable tourism with its sensitive ecological system, said Baseet.

"To ensure achieving ecological diversity and balance, which we aspire to realize by 2040, we have conducted comprehensive ecological surveys for all the lands of the project, taking into consideration the long-term environmental impacts of the operational