Only a small part of NEOM’s land is developed, with much more dedicated to preserving nature and history, Al Arabiya English Journalist Jennifer Bell says. #NEOM #SaudiArabia
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00:00As we understand the entire neon mega project has been developed on only a fraction of the total space
00:07So what's happening with the rest of the land surrounding it of course?
00:11So when we when I went there, I was astonished at the size of it
00:13I mean, it's twenty six and a half thousand square kilometers, but they're only developing five percent of that
00:1895% of it's gonna be reserved for nature rewilding regreening and we saw the start of that
00:23I mean we saw some of this wildlife being reintroduced into the area that hasn't been seen in decades from you know
00:29gazelles to oryxes to
00:32Ostriches and then by the end of the year they want to reintroduce cheetahs
00:35they've also planted more than kind of four million trees as part of the rewilding project and
00:39A lot of them a lot of the work has been done to preserve historical sites
00:43We got a glimpse at a site in Badgder where they're preserving
00:46So this is this rock called shiprock and and it's they've uncovered inscriptions dating back to the prehistoric time
00:52So I think preserving this rich history has been key to the project