The National Center for Developing Vegetation Cover and Combating Desertification has decided to open the doors to camping for those who wish by issuing camping permits for people in the vegetation lands and national parks supervised by the Center, through the departments for vegetation development in the regions, and national parks departments.
The center said the permits include parks, Huraymila National Park, Thadiq Al-Watani, Thadiq Raghbah, Umm Al-Shuquq Kindergarten, Jableh, Al-Qaa Kindergarten in Thurmada in Marat Governorate and Shaqra (Eastern Nufud) in Riyadh.
He pointed out that the areas where camping is allowed in Qassim region include Qassim National Park, Al-Qasha’i, Al-Asyaf, Unaizah (Al-Ghada Parks) and in Madinah region, Madinah National Park Al-Bayda.
It established that the location of the camp was determined under its supervision, as well as the provision of security and protection tools according to the needs of civil protection, taking into account the needs of the competent authorities, as well as the availability of a national identity or regular residence for the natural persons and the center has approved the general rules that must be respected, including the duration of the campsite not exceeding three months and the specification of only one camp for each beneficiary.
Emphasizes the need to preserve the vegetation cover in campsites, avoiding harmful behaviors such as (grazing, hunting, logging and throwing waste), not using the fields for purposes other than camping and undertaking not to build buildings with material or sheet metal load-bearing structures, and preventing the erection of posts or mounds Dirt around the camp, following the park or site (campsite) system.
