Dubai has launched a Mangrove Planting Initiative throughout its sanctuaries. The initiative targets planting 40,000 mangrove timber over the subsequent two years, making it one of many UAE’s most important mangrove restoration tasks.
The initiative is led by Dubai Setting and Local weather Change Authority (DECCA), the governmental physique main the environmental and local weather agenda within the Emirate.
Ahmed Mohammed bin Thani, Director Common of DECCA, introduced this at an occasion held on the Jebel Ali Wildlife Sanctuary, within the presence of Lieutenant Common Dhahi Khalfan Tamim, Deputy Chief of Police and Common Safety in Dubai.
Mangroves are a really environment friendly carbon sink, providing an efficient answer to face local weather change. Additionally they act as a pure coastal protect, dissipating wave vitality and stabilising sediments. Amongst their roots, fish and benthic organisms thrive, supporting marine fisheries and coastal communities, thereby reinforcing meals safety in Dubai.
The initiative was launched at Jebel Ali Wildlife Sanctuary, a wetland of worldwide significance beneath the Ramsar Conference. The sanctuary’s significance lies in its location on the coronary heart of one of many area’s most lively improvement corridors.
Lieutenant Common Dhahi Khalfan Tamim remarked: “The environment is essentially the most important nationwide asset and its safety is a shared accountability for everybody throughout neighborhood.
Mangrove forests should not simply inexperienced areas inside Dubai’s panorama; they’re deeply rooted in our nationwide id. Our forefathers lived alongside them and guarded them, recognising their significance in enhancing biodiversity in Dubai, and entrusted them to us to guard for future generations.
“Launching the Mangrove Planting Initiative in Dubai’s Sanctuaries is an bold step within the emirate’s efforts to strengthen environmental sustainability, consistent with our clever management’s imaginative and prescient to help and preserve environmental assets as a key enabler of biodiversity in Dubai.”
Ahmed Mohammed bin Thani added: “The Mangrove Planting Initiative in Dubai’s Sanctuaries is a key step in advancing environmental and local weather motion.
“Mangrove forests are our inexperienced fort in opposition to the impacts of local weather change. This initiative helps the UAE’s nationwide goal to plant 100 million mangrove timber by 2030, whereas enhancing biodiversity inside the emirate’s protected areas.”
The initiative launch coincides with Planting Week organised by the Ministry of Local weather Change and Setting and helps the UAE’s strategic environmental and local weather priorities and commitments.
Spanning 75.2 sq. kilometres, the Jebel Ali Wildlife Sanctuary hosts exceptional fauna and flora combine together with coral reefs and seagrass meadows to mangrove stands that collectively to create important pure habitats for turtles, fish, reptiles and birds.
