Coral restoration in the Red Sea
Egypt’s Red Sea coral reef restoration project achieves breakthrough in Middle East. -- headline
After nearly a decade of implementing the experiment at three different environmentally damaged sites in the Red Sea, and under the auspices and support of the United Nations Development Programme’s Global Environment Facility (GEF), environmental researchers from the Abu Salam Environmental Association and the Red Sea Reserves, in scientific collaboration with the Department of Marine Sciences at Al-Azhar University’s Faculty of Science, have announced the success of the project to rehabilitate destroyed coral reefs in Hurghada.
Mohamed Abdelghani, the project’s executive director at the Abu Salam Association, considered the project to be one of the most successful environmental projects implemented to rehabilitate and replant coral reefs in a natural way. He explained that during the recent inspection of the planting models, the growth of many types of hard and soft corals was observed on the planting models, in addition to the appearance of many other marine creatures and colorful fish.
The successful natural rehabilitation of coral reefs in this project has opened up new possibilities for environmental researchers, highlighting the need to restore damaged coral reef areas and potentially incorporating such restoration costs into the fines imposed by law on those responsible for the destruction.
https://www.egyptindependent.com/egypts-red-sea-coral-reef-restoration-project-achieves-breakthrough-in-middle-east/