Saudi mangrove park leads coastal conservation efforts

RAS TANURA: The Arabian Gulf coastline is chockfull of treasures, and the Grey Mangrove, known as Avicennia marina, will greet you readily at the surface. Situated in the aptly-named Ras Tanura, its city moniker was derived from the Arabic for “Cape Oven,” due to it’s oven-like heat and humidity; this mangrove-fringed inlets and bays that skirt around Ras Tanura’s Mangrove Eco-Park protect that salty, humid strip of area where the land meets the sea. It is free and open to the public.

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