IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature

• Enhanced awareness of hotel / resort managers, staff, and guests to marine conservation, climate change impacts, and sustainability issues. Introduced marine conservation, climate change, and sustainability to this sector and highlighted the importance of natural and marine resources and the need to protect them.
• Introduced school children to their natural environment, and taught them about pertinent environmental issues facing their area through a fun, outdoor, and hands-on manner while introducing the concept of outdoor, nature-based learning to teachers on both the local and governorate levels.
  
• Developed an awareness program and material for dive guides and dive professionals.

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature, IUCN, contracted Sara El Sayed and Usama El Ghazali to undertake the final component of the Climate Change and Coral Reef Resilience project that dealt with the  Environmental Education section. The objective was to undertake an Environmental Education and Public Awareness Program addressing the impacts of anthropogenic activities (diving impacts, overfishing, pollution, and climate change) on global coral reefs and specifically in Marsa Alam area in Egypt. Furthermore, the sub-objective was to develop and integrate an environmental education program into the curriculum of Marsa Alam schools. The purpose was to ensure that the upcoming generation of youth in the area are empowered about issues in Climate change and coral reefs to be able to make the appropriate decisions and changes to create a better livelihood for themselves and ensure in the conservation of these pristine sites.