Saudi Arabia has achieved a major global environmental milestone by securing a Guinness World Records title for the world’s largest seasonal seed storage collection, marking a significant step in the Kingdom’s sustainability and environmental protection efforts.
The record-setting achievement crowns a year-long initiative led by the National Center for Vegetation Cover Development and Combating Desertification, during which trained and specialized field teams traveled across the Kingdom to collect native plant seeds to support land rehabilitation and ecological restoration projects.
According to details of the initiative, field teams successfully collected seeds from 31 species of local wild plants. Following collection, the seeds underwent rigorous processing, including cleaning and purification to remove impurities and plant residues, before being preserved under internationally recognized storage standards.
As a result of these efforts, seed warehouses across the Kingdom now house more than 95 tons of rangeland and wild plant seeds, setting a new global benchmark and reinforcing Saudi Arabia’s growing leadership in environmental conservation and desertification control.
The milestone aligns closely with the Kingdom’s broader sustainability agenda under Saudi Vision 2030, which prioritizes the protection of natural resources, restoration of degraded lands, and long-term solutions to combat desertification. The initiative also supports international efforts aimed at mitigating climate change and promoting environmental resilience.
Saudi Arabia has recorded multiple environmental achievements at national, regional, and global levels in recent years, reflecting a sustained push to integrate sustainability into development planning while addressing the challenges posed by climate change and land degradation.
