In an effort to green residential districts in Riyadh, the “Green Riyadh” program announced the beginning of greening efforts in the Al-Nakheel neighborhood.
Al-Nakheel, after Al-Aziziyah, Al-Naseem, Al-Jazeera, Al-Araija, Qurtuba, and Al-Ghadir, is the seventh residential area to be landscaped.
On Thursday, October 5, the neighborhood of Al-Nakheel will undergo some greening. Through the construction of 17 neighborhood parks, four schools, 30 mosques, 14 parking lots, and 52 kilometers of roadways and corridors, the neighborhood will be covered with 50,000 trees and plants.
Al-Nakheel neighborhood greening projects will be accompanied by an exhibition and events aimed at educating locals about the beginning of the infrastructure work for greening their neighborhood, the project’s stages and duration, as well as the neighborhood’s future vision and designs after the project is complete. From October 5 to October 14, the exhibition is set to take place in the Al-Nakheel area.
The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, launched the Green Riyadh program, one of Riyadh’s four megaprojects, at the initiative of HRH Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, Crown Prince and Prime Minister.
It seeks to plant more than 7.5 million trees in the city of Riyadh, raise the city’s green covering to 9.1%, boost the per-person share of green space from 1.7 m2 to 28 m2, which is 16 times its current level, and improve the city’s urban environment by regreening residential districts.
The initiative aids in attaining the objectives of Saudi Vision 2030, which include planting 10 billion trees around the Kingdom over the next few decades, as well as the targets of the Saudi Green Initiative.