River landscape protection, recreation and management: Nile River case study

River corridor is the complex entity comprising valuable ecosystem, landforms, soils, plants, animals and manmade land cover structures. It offers transport conditions, hydropower generation, food sources, and provides spectacular settings for tourism and recreation. River landscapes need to be maintained and enhanced so. The restoration of rivers through cleaning up and prevention of pollution, release of sufficient quantities of good quality water to river channels, and the rehabilitation of adjacent landscapes and ecosystems including the conservation improvement and rational use of river corridor is the main task for the future. The Nile River is a source of drinking water, important biodiversity and transport corridor comprising of a large number of threatened and endangered species as well as huge amount of historical monuments and attractive sites for tourism and recreation. These resources are increasingly threatened as development rapidly expands in the northern Sudan. The study is aimed to present the general view of spatial variability of human impacts which cause the degradation of its environment with paying particular attention to some aspects dealing with its the potential recreation/tourism use of it.