Mapping
Mangroves mapped from SPOT 6 & 7 imagery (2023), with change analysed from 2000 to 2025 using Landsat, Sentinel-2 and SPOT.
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia · Red Sea & Arabian Gulf
MangroveAtlas
Six coastal regions, twenty-five years of change and the life that depends on them, mapped from the national mangrove database.
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14,236.73haof mangroves in 2025Sum of the six regional series
+3,763.18hanet expansion since 20002000 → 2025, same regional series
6coastal regionsFive on the Red Sea, one on the Arabian Gulf
76species recorded with the mangroves44 birds, 23 fish and others, 9 crustaceans
How these figures differ from other totals in the atlas
Regional series, 2025. Each region's temporal series (2000, 2015, 2020, 2025) gives the area used here: 14,236.73 ha across the six regions.
Mapped inventory. Some regions also publish an inventory of the latest mapping. Aseer's is 1,523.24 ha against 1,425.77 ha in its 2025 series, so inventory totals are slightly higher.
National GIS database, 2023. The living map reads the NCVC database mapped from SPOT 6 & 7 imagery: 14,240.73 ha.
The journey01 — 08
Coastal regions
Choose a region
See where its mangroves are, how much there is and how it changed between 2000 and 2025.
Biodiversity
Who lives in the mangroves
A few of the species
The living map
2000 or 2025? Drag and see.
Every mapped mangrove stand in the Kingdom on satellite imagery. Move the divider to compare the coast in 2000 with the coast in 2025, then open the full map for habitats, planting areas and field sites.
Open the living mapMethods
Where the figures come from
Fieldwork
Surveyed stands across the six regions record tree height, regeneration, soil, salinity and aerial roots.
Habitats
Coral reefs, seagrass and tidal flats come from the JICA – NCWCD coastal habitat maps.
Stewardship
The atlas and its data belong to the National Center for Vegetation Cover Development and Combating Desertification.