Unofficially, Dr. Hanafy has developed a simple organizational set up for the temporary 

facilitation of day to day work of the Unit. The following diagram presents the current 

organizational set up of the Unit: 

General Director

Red Sea Marine Parks 

ELBA Protectorates 

Terrestrial 

Northern Section 

Southern Sector 

Central Marine Units  

Hurghada 

Safaga & 

Qusseir 

Marsa Alam 

Abu Soma 

Financial & 

IT & 

Mooring 

Monitoring 

Law 

Marine Patrol &

Public 

Administrative 

GIS 

Unit 

Affairs 

Environmental 

Relations & 

Affairs 

Unit 

Regulations 

Awareness 

The Unit's main scope of services includes, but is not limited to, the following:  

1.  Implementing the National Plan for development of Red Sea Protectorates. 

2.  Managing and maintaining the Red Sea Protectorates and supervising operations, to 

preserve natural wealth. 

3.  Encouraging pilot projects and initiatives to preserve natural resources and monitoring its 

implementation within Red Sea area. 

4.  Designing and implementing mooring strategy in the Red Sea Protectorate.  

5.  Increasing environmental awareness in the area. 

6.  Enforcing the implementation of civil laws to protect the environment, mainly Law 4 of 

1994 for Environment and Law 103 of 1983 for Natural Protectorates. 

7. Supervising on the implementation of international agreements and conventions 

regarding Red Sea area.  

8. Participating in the technical review of the EIAs and following up on their 

implementation. 

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