Conserving mangrove habitat
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Over 500 male and female volunteers helped transplant some 5,000 mangrove plants in two different areas along Saudi Arabia’s Tarut Bay.
The transplanting underscores one of Saudi Aramco’s corporate values: citizenship. The campaign’s objective, more than just planting new mangroves, was to educate the public on the importance of mangroves to the marine environment and encourage increased conservation and rehabilitation of mangrove habitat.
The newly-planted mangroves will protect shorelines, sea-grass beds and coral reefs. They also serve as a nursery for fish, shrimp and mud-crabs; protect reclaimed land; and become popular sites for ecotourism.
Volunteers came from a wide variety of organisations: Boy Scouts from the Youth Care Center and al-Rawda Club in al-Hasa, orphans from Mabarat al-Ehsan in Dammam and al-Khobar, Saudi Aramco employees and their dependents, members of the Society of Advocates and Volunteers for the Environment (SAVE), and Troop 94 Girl Scouts from Dhahran.
Posted by Editor Offshore Arabia Magazine
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