Plans to transform Dubai’s coastline into an ecotourism resort have been revealed.
Sustainable city planners URB have come up with a project called Dubai Reefs.
If it goes ahead, it would see the sea off Dubai’s Jumeirah coastline become a floating living lab for marine restoration and ecotourism. If it comes off, it would be the world’s largest.
Dubai Reef would be a sustainable floating community for marine research, regeneration and ecotourism, working towards greater protection of the marine and coastal environment of Dubai.
The plans suggest that the project would include the world’s most diverse artificial reef, covering 200 sq km that could be home to more than 1 billion corals and 100 million mangrove trees.
The project plans also include residential, hospitality and retail spaces including floating eco-lodges, wave farms and ocean farming.
