Luxury hotel in Riyadh facing backlash on the depletion of Red Sea corals

Saudi Arabia's Four Seasons Riyadh is an iconic tower of the Middle East. Currently, the country has been pushing to expand their tourism industry, and constructing a resort city called Neom over the coast of Red Sea. It will be called Hotel 12, for European clientele and Ummahat AlShaykh in Arabic.

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The Red Sea coral reefs have been depleting and are more or less destroyed from climate change, tourism, oil spills, and heavy freighter traffic, the Red Sea still houses a rich and diverse sea life. Moreover climatologists are warning about the effects of artificially intermixing the ecology and atmosphere of desert with water, and how the biodiversity of both will be affected.

Other prominent architects like Kengo Kuma will be designing high-profile projects for these untouched islands between Al Wajh and Umluj in Saudi Arabia, which is an archipelago of 90 undeveloped islands. The Red Sea Project aspires to be entirely carbon neutral and will consume power which will form renewable energy, but the biodiversity loss due to land consumption still remains to be addressed. According to the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network, 14 percent of the world's coral reefs have depleted from 2009 to 2018. Coral reefs are a crucial form of life and resource for the water quality and marine life and must be conserved.