ADNOC has signed a contract with Distant Imagery, a UAE-based environmental technology company, to plant 2.5 million mangrove seedlings across Abu Dhabi using innovative drone planting technology adopted by the Environment Agency Abu Dhabi.As part of the first phase of the program, special custom-built drones and rigging equipment, built by Distant Imagery and supported by EAD, were used to plant more than 200,000 mangrove seeds in Abu Dhabi’s Mirfa coastal lagoon. The germination and growth of the mangroves will be monitored for the next year; in parallel ADNOC will proceed with aerially planting a total of 2.5 million mangroves over three years.The new contract that comes within the framework of the Abu Dhabi Mangrove Initiative and the existing partnership with EAD enables ADNOC to accelerate its mangrove planting activities by deploying drones that can disperse over 2,000 mangrove seeds in roughly eight minutes, reinforcing the company’s commitment to plant up to 10 million mangroves in Abu Dhabi by 2030.
ADNOC has signed a contract with Distant Imagery, a UAE-based environmental technology company, to plant 2.5 million mangrove seedlings across Abu Dhabi using innovative drone planting technology adopted by the Environment Agency Abu Dhabi.As part of the first phase of the program, special custom-built drones and rigging equipment, built by Distant Imagery and supported by EAD, were used to plant more than 200,000 mangrove seeds in Abu Dhabi’s Mirfa coastal lagoon. The germination and growth of the mangroves will be monitored for the next year; in parallel ADNOC will proceed with aerially planting a total of 2.5 million mangroves over three years.The new contract that comes within the framework of the Abu Dhabi Mangrove Initiative and the existing partnership with EAD enables ADNOC to accelerate its mangrove planting activities by deploying drones that can disperse over 2,000 mangrove seeds in roughly eight minutes, reinforcing the company’s commitment to plant up to 10 million mangroves in Abu Dhabi by 2030.
