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ANNEX III - PHOTOS

Photo 1 – Mangroves at Ras Mohamed National Park – an important recreational resource.

Photo 2 – Mangroves at Nabq National Reserve – an important recreational resource.

Photo 3 – Mangroves at South Safaga – a potentially important recreational resource, showing an interesting ancient coral reef habitat feature.

Photo 4 – Osprey in mangroves at El- Hamirah – a potential recreational feature of mangroves.

Photo 5 – Carefully landscaped hotel in El Ghouna, where mangroves were cleared.

Photo 6 – Natural green landscape afforded by mangroves at Hamata.

Photo 7 – A dragonfly drinking or feeding on a mangrove root at Ras Mohamed.

Photo 8 – Mangroves helping to slow erosion of the soft sediments in Nabq.

Photo 9 – Volunteers cleaning up mangroves in South Safaga demonstrating “non-use value”.

Photo 10 - Camel grazing at El Hamirah. This causes obvious and significant stress to mangroves.

Photo 11 – Excessive camel grazing at El Hamirah. Note that where camels cannot reach, the mangrove growth is still healthy.

Photo 12 - Jetty built at El Hamirah potentially causing ponding of waters and impacts the mangroves.

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