King Abdulaziz Royal Reserve Development Authority announced a significant environmental achievement, represented in the rehabilitation of more than 614,000 hectares of reserve land, contributing to over 60% of the total national environmental accomplishment of rehabilitating the first one million hectares of vegetated land in the Kingdom, under Saudi Vision 2030, which aims to rehabilitate about 2.5 million hectares by 2030. This marks an important step reflecting the authority’s pivotal role in restoring ecosystems and enhancing their sustainability across the Kingdom.
This achievement reflects the effectiveness of field efforts carried out by the authority, in cooperation with relevant entities and the local community, focusing on protecting natural habitats, reducing environmental violations, and applying advanced scientific practices to rehabilitate degraded land, contributing to accelerating vegetation recovery and restoring ecological balance within the reserve.
In this context, CEO of the King Abdulaziz Royal Reserve Development Authority Eng. Maher Al Qothmi stressed that this accomplishment reflects the scale of systematic work led by the authority, under the guidance of the wise leadership, to achieve environmental sustainability targets. He noted that the rehabilitated area reached 614,312.92 hectares of reserve land, representing more than 60% of the total national achievement of rehabilitating the first one million hectares of vegetated land across the Kingdom, reflecting the efficiency of implementation plans and their ability to create tangible impact on the ground, in line with the objectives of the Saudi Green Initiative and Saudi Vision 2030.
This progress comes at a time when the Kingdom is witnessing accelerating environmental momentum, crowned by reaching the rehabilitation of the first one million hectares of degraded land and planting more than 159 million trees, within integrated national efforts to develop vegetation cover and address desertification and climate change challenges, enhancing the quality of life and supporting the realization of Saudi Vision 2030 goals.
Source: Riyadh Daily