RIYADH: Sustainability commitments are easy to announce, but the harder test for tourism developers might be proving that nature is measurably better off once a development’s own impacts have been counted. Saleh Maghrabi, a marine environmental consultant and sustainability expert, told Arab News that building and conserving can go hand in hand, but only on one condition.
Maghrabi said that with coral reefs, mangroves and seagrass, development and conservation can exist alongside each other, but only if the environme