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PHOTO GALLERY: Birds, fish and crabs enjoy mangrove reforestation in Marsa Allam




Workers replant mangrove trees at the site of a state-sponsored mangrove reforestation project in the Hamata area south of Marsa Alam along Egypt s southern Red Sea coast on September 16, 2022. AFP

Leisure boats are seen in the distance near a mangrove forest at the site of a state-sponsored mangrove reforestation project in the Hamata area south of Marsa Alam along Egypt s southern Red Sea coast on September 16, 2022. AFP

Crabs walk on the sand at the site of a state-sponsored mangrove reforestation project in the Hamata area south of Marsa Alam along Egypt s southern Red Sea coast on September 16, 2022. AFP

Sayed Khalifa, the head of Egypt s Syndicate of Agriculture and who is leading a state-sponsored mangrove reforestation project, gives a tour of a mangrove seedling nursery at the site in the Hamata area south of Marsa Alam along Egypt s southern Red Sea coast on September 16, 2022. AFP

A western reef heron (Egretta gularis), also known as a western reef egret, stands in the water at the site of a state-sponsored mangrove reforestation project in the Hamata area south of Marsa Alam along Egypt s southern Red Sea coast on September 16, 2022. AFP

A flock of birds flies above a mangrove forest at the site of a state-sponsored mangrove reforestation project in the Hamata area south of Marsa Alam along Egypt s southern Red Sea coast on September 16, 2022. - On Egypt s Red Sea coast, fish swim among thousands of newly-planted mangroves, part of a programme to boost biodiversity, protect coastlines and fight climate change and its impacts. After decades of destruction that saw the mangroves cleared, all that remained were fragmented patches totalling some 500 hectares (1,200 acres), the size of only a few hundred football pitches. AFP

A western reef heron (Egretta gularis), also known as a western reef egret, stands in the water at the site of a state-sponsored mangrove reforestation project in the Hamata area south of Marsa Alam along Egypt s southern Red Sea coast on September 16, 2022. AFP

Leisure boats are seen in the distance near a mangrove forest at the site of a state-sponsored mangrove reforestation project in the Hamata area south of Marsa Alam along Egypt s southern Red Sea coast on September 16, 2022. AFP

This picture taken on September 16, 2022 shows a view of the site of a state-sponsored mangrove reforestation project in the Hamata area south of Marsa Alam along Egypt s southern Red Sea coast on September 16, 2022. AFP

A flock of birds flies above a mangrove forest at the site of a state-sponsored mangrove reforestation project in the Hamata area south of Marsa Alam along Egypt s southern Red Sea coast on September 16, 2022. AFP