Save The Red Sea From risks

• Somalia Pirates:

Somali pirates continue their attacks against international ships in and around the Gulf of Aden, despite the deterrent of stepped-up international naval escorts and patrols - and the increased failure rate of their attacks. Under agreements with Somalia, the U.N, and each other, ships belonging to fifteen countries now patrol the area. Somali pirates - who have won themselves nearly $200 million in ransom since early 2008 - are being captured more frequently now, and handed over to authorities in Kenya, Yemen and Somalia for trial. Collected here are some recent photos of piracy off the coast of Somalia, and the international efforts to rein it in.

• power plant :

To this day, Red Sea resort tourist operators, hotel owners and tourism stakeholders are trying to fight off a gigantic power plant about to arrive in the beautiful, pristine resort in South Sinai peninsula. Worried locals oppose the joint project by the Investment Bank, African Development Bank and top Egyptian Authorities to build 750-megawatt gas-powered turbines on a site 105,000 square meters in size (going up to over 82 meters) right at the heart of the popular resort area of Nuweiba City, South Sinai in Egypt.

• Coral reefs :

Coral reefs are the largest living structures on our planet. They played a key role in Earth's history and continue to do so today. Approximately 800 species of corals have been described, and the reefs they form in turn harbor millions of additional species. Today, several different types of reefs are distinguished, among them fringing reefs, patch reefs, barrier reefs and atolls. Interestingly, this diversity of forms and types is achieved by a small subgroup (scleractinians) of relatively simply built organisms, namely the cnidarians (which include the sea anemones, for example).). The reef-building capacity of these corals is based on a symbiosis with single-celled algae (so-called zooxanthellae) that live in the coral tissue. Coral reefs are broadly restricted to shallow tropical waters. They cover a total area of ca. 280,000 km², which represents only 0.09 % of the world's oceans and less than 1.2% of the world's continental shelf area.