Saudi Arabia

National voluntary LDN targets (original language)

LDN targets at national level:

• Promote sustainable land use practices to secure natural capital and environmental services
• Plan the land uses to reduce adverse environmental impact
• Rehabilitate degraded areas and promote eco-tourism and biodiversity
• Increase protected areas to reach 30% of Saudi Arabia's total land area
• Spur combating desertification innovation by promoting scientific research and adopting advanced technologies
• Afforest degraded sites with suitable endemic plants to assist natural regeneration

Specific targets:

• Rehabilitate 2.4 million hectares of rangeland areas through vegetation cover improvement
• Organize grazing to contribute to rangelands sustainability
• Enable sustainable rehabilitation of abandoned agricultural lands
• Rehabilitate degraded areas in abandoned terraces
• Rehabilitate designated mountain forests' degraded sites by planting 2.8 million trees
• Protect existing mangrove sites and prevent degradation
• Rehabilitate degraded sites in coastal areas trough plantation
• Rehabilitate designated valleys’ degraded sites by planting 1.8 million trees
• Implement water harvesting technologies to rehabilitate degraded areas
• Mitigate drought through development of renewable and non-renewable groundwater and surface water resources