His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan, a representative of the ruler in the Al Dhafra region, Chairman of the Environment Authority – Abu Dhabi, directed the expansion of the authority’s project to rehabilitate coral reefs in Abu Dhabi, with more than four million coral colonies in the emirate’s waters by 2030, to cover an area estimated at more than 900 hectares, which makes it the largest project to rehabilitate coral rehabilitation in the world. The authority had succeeded during the last period in reaching the goal of rehabilitating a million coral colonies in eight different locations in the emirate, with a total area of more than 300 hectares, which increased the area of coral reefs in Abu Dhabi. The areas that were rehabilitated have witnessed a success rate
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