Schools throughout the Kingdom teach subjects such as biology, botany, zoology or the environment that underpin biodiversity. However, few adequately cover conservation of biodiversity, causes of its decline or the harmful consequence of loss of biodiversity to humans. Similarly, although there are eight universities in Saudi Arabia, only a few have specific programmes that directly address biodiversity issues. There is therefore clear need to develop curricula at all levels of the education system and also to upgrade teachers at schools so that they are able to teach these curricula.

The media are crucial to development of awareness in the populace at large. Increasingly, the public media in Saudi Arabia devotes time and space to environmental issues and there is excellent co-operation between the media and government sectors in bringing about an improved level of awareness of Saudi Arabian biodiversity issues. Production of the popular wildlife journal Al-Wudaihi, frequent television and radio programmes and newspaper articles have effectively developed public awareness within the Kingdom and the region.

As a means of raising awareness and to contribute to greening of the country, the Ministry of Agriculture provides tree seedlings to the public for planting during tree week. The Presidency for Meteorology and the Environment published the first volume of "Flowers of Saudi Arabia" and initially published the "Fauna of Saudi Arabia" series in collaboration with the Natural History Museum of Basel, Switzerland. The National Commission for Wildlife Conservation and Development published the second, revised edition of the "Flowers of Saudi Arabia" in 2003. In 2003, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology took over publication of the "Fauna of Saudi Arabia", now re-named "Fauna of Arabia". The Ministry of Agriculture published the comprehensive "Vegetation of Saudi Arabia".

Communication within and between specialist communities is equally important as developing awareness amongst the public at large. All the organisation involved in biodiversity issues regularly organise conferences, meetings and specialist workshops on matters of topical importance (such as coral bleaching), development of conservation strategy (such as the workshops on plant conservation strategies for the Arabian Peninsula) and means of achieving long-term sustainable use of resources. Staff members of the organisations actively publish in specialist journals as well as producing popular articles in Arabic and English on environmental and biodiversity issues.