#mangrove

🇸🇻 El Salvador · Asociación Mangle

A grassroots community group is hand-dredging clogged mangrove channels to bring fish, shrimp and floodwater relief back to El Salvador's Jiquilisco Bay.

🇹🇿 Tanzania · Mwambao Coastal Community Network

A Zanzibar-born network puts coastal Tanzanian communities in charge of restoring reefs, mangroves and fisheries on which their livelihoods depend.

🇬🇼 Guinea-Bissau · Tiniguena (Esta Terra É Nossa)

Guinea-Bissau's oldest conservation NGO helped Bijagós islanders create West Africa's first community-run marine protected area and still co-manages it with them.

🇮🇩 Indonesia · EcoNusa Foundation

EcoNusa helps Indigenous Papuan and Maluku communities map, defend, and sustainably manage their own forests and mangroves against palm oil and logging expansion.

🇰🇮 Kiribati · Kiribati Climate Action Network (KiriCAN)

Kiribati's first homegrown climate NGO mobilizes women and youth to replant mangroves and carry i-Kiribati voices into UN climate negotiations.

🇹🇱 Timor-Leste · Konservasaun Flora no Fauna (KFF)

Founded by biology students in Dili, Timor-Leste's only dedicated conservation NGO has rebuilt tens of hectares of mangrove coastline stripped bare by charcoal-cutting.

🇰🇪 Kenya · Association for Coastal Ecosystem Services (ACES)

The world's first blue carbon project pays a Kenyan fishing community to protect and replant the mangroves of Gazi Bay.

🇸🇳 Senegal · Océanium

A Dakar-based association that mobilized hundreds of villages to replant tens of millions of mangroves in Senegal's deltas.

🇬🇲 Gambia · Sankandi Youth Development Association (SYDA)

A rural youth association is replanting the mangrove green belt along the Bintang Bolong to bring back fish, farmland and firewood for six Gambian communities.

🇵🇰 Pakistan · WWF-Pakistan

Coastal communities and WWF-Pakistan have replanted tens of thousands of hectares of mangroves that shield the Indus Delta from cyclones and rising seas.

🌍 Global · Sustainable Surf (SeaTrees)

SeaTrees, the flagship program of nonprofit Sustainable Surf, funds local partners around the world to plant and protect mangroves, kelp and seagrass meadows that store carbon far faster than land forests.

🇧🇿 Belize · Fragments of Hope

A Placencia-based coral nursery network has replanted tens of thousands of resilient corals along the Belize Barrier Reef since 2006.

🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates · Emirates Nature-WWF

The UAE's first WWF affiliate is replanting the Northern Emirates' coastline with mangroves that store four times more carbon than tropical forest.

🇹🇴 Tonga · Vava'u Environmental Protection Association (VEPA)

A Tongan NGO founded by local leaders is turning traditional reef knowledge into a nationwide network of community-run ocean management zones.

🇻🇺 Vanuatu · Wan Smolbag Theatre

What began as a 1995 play about sea turtles grew into Vanuatu's 260-plus-member community network protecting turtles, reefs, and mangroves across dozens of islands.