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Environmental News

PLANTING 3000

MANGROVE SEEDLINGS

IN JUBAIL INDUSTRIAL CITY

The Royal Commission in Jubail, in cooperation with Solvay Chemical Industries, organized a program to grow mangroves on the Al Batinah
Island in Jubail industrial city.

Director of Social Services Department at the Royal Commission in Jubail, Khalaf Al-Shammari said that the number of participants in the
program is about 90 people from Solvay Company from di erent nationalities who contributed to the cultivation of (3000) mangrove
seedlings, noting that the program aims to support the marine environment and wildlife in Jubail industrial city by cultivating Mangroves in
the Arabian Gulf, which are plants that grow in salty coastal environments.

Al-Shammari said that the program comes within the ongoing e orts of the Royal Commission in Jubail in the eld of environmental
protection and the promotion of national e orts to protect the marine environment to increase awareness of the importance of preserving
this coastal plant.

NOTE

The Royal Commission Environmental Protection and Control Department kindly invites All
Companies operating in the Jubail Industrial City to send:-

(i) brief information on its Environmental Awareness Activities conducted in the previous quarter.
(ii) a brief environmental article in electronic ready from with two high resolution pictures
attached in both Arabic and English in a CD RC-EPCD and/or to the following emails:

(Zahranisau@RCJubail.gov.sa) and (Mosabehn@RCJubail.gov.sa)

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