Dear friends,

HEPCA’s scientific research team headed by Professor Mahmoud Hanafy and Dr Mohammed Kotb, associated with two researchers from the Nature Conservation Sector of the Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency (EEAA) Mr. Tamer Monir and Mr. Islam El Sadek had the opportunity to study a remarkable mass spawning involving Acropora species, a group of common hard corals, occurred a few days ago.

All Earth Day Participants, with exaltation of School for Mentally Disabled Children of Safaga.

Are adult turtles getting ready for the nesting season?

Mirror-like sea, a jellyfish invasion and a sandstorm: this is, in a nutshell, what happened during the last survey in Samadai. The team has visited the site for four days in a row and recorded three encounters of spinner dolphins, mostly females and youngsters.

As a part of our promise to bring science to your doorstep, we will introduce to you in a series of articles about our amazing creatures in the Red Sea, simple information about them and why it is important to protect them.

Mooring Team never stops! This month busy like bees fixing moorings in Hurghada, El Quiser, Marsa Alam, and so on. Here are just some of the sites they have visited in the month of April:

The 22^nd of April was a day that inspired many! Not only because so many cleanups took place around the Red Sea region, but also because the youngest in the community participated the most enthusiastically.

 What has happened during the Earth Day 2012 in Egypt exceeded my expectations. I cannot express my gratitude for every single hand that has helped cleaning our precious environment. We saw many participants in the event, who committed themselves and their time for making our surroundings more environmentally friendly.

Since 1990, people all over the globe gather together under one cause: to make our environment greener. During the Earth Day 2012, which will take place on the 22^nd of April, people from all nationalities and races will voice their appreciation to Mother Earth by doing their part in preserving the environment. We, HEPCA, know that the most dangerous hazards in the Red Sea district are freely...

The Sun can be associated with one of the most popular British tabloid, as well as to our central galactic star. This article is not going to consider the latest celebrity gossip, as many of you may hope for, but it will contemplate the future implied with the power of our biggest star. Most of us are probably aware of the fact that the Sun is one of the main causes of life on earth and there are many...

A fleet of 13 local fishermen boats entered the Hurghada New Marina on10 th of March 2012 with a purpose to put more attention to the problem the local fishermen are facing with the unsustainable fishing practices from Fayoum fishermen, who are not only emptying out the Egyptian waters but also destroying the sensitive marine life.

We all know about or at least heard of the impact of human pollution on the environment. But do we really know how much rubbish the waters and the islands of the Red Sea are accumulating? On the 6^th of March 2012, HEPCA in association with Tetra Pak Egypt scheduled a clean-up on Magawish Island. The first impression was astonishing and heart-breaking as the compiled garbage densely...

When you spot a group of Eagle rays and 2 juvenile hawksbill turtles at the beginning of your dive, you immediately realize you are in a special place. With an amazing mixture of beautiful landscape, sandy beaches and high coral diversity, Ras Hankorab is one of the most prestigious diving sites along the southern coast of the Egyptian Red Sea. Other areas comparable to this one are rare to find nowadays....