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How Saudi Arabia’s wild lotus shrub was brought back from the brink of extinction

  • The wild lotus shrub thrives in streams, blooming with small red flowers during the hot summer months
  • Afforestation and land reclamation efforts under the Saudi Green Initiative were key to the plant’s revival
By Haifa Alshammari ·

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