‘We’re planting 10 million trees,’ says RCU Conservation Leader

Stephen Browne, Wildlife Conservation Leader at The Royal Commission for AlUla, spoke at a book launch in London recently on the vast nature reserve being cultivated in north-west Saudi Arabia.

The end goal is to create a balance between conservation and tourism over around 85% of AlUla’s total landscape, in order to offer sustainable safari experiences to visitors, while bringing the endangered Arabian leopard, and its prey, back to the region.

The leopard is the focus of a new book by Assouline, out in July 2022 and launched at a prestigious event in London.