Across Tanzania’s 1,424-kilometre coastline, the ocean sustains 12 million lives — yet rising sea temperatures, habitat loss, and unsustainable fishing are degrading the reefs, mangroves, and seagrass meadows that 4.5 million Tanzanians depend on for their livelihoods.
Action For Ocean (AFO) links environmental recovery to economic resilience. Under our 2025–2030 Strategic Plan, we are restoring critical marine ecosystems, strengthening fisheries co-management, and building inclusive Blue Economy livelihoods for women, youth, and coastal innovators.
We are not only protecting Tanzania’s marine heritage — we are building a resilient Blue Economy for generations to come.
In 2025, Action For Ocean deepened its commitment to a simple truth: thriving oceans depend on thriving communities. Across Tanzaniau2019s coastal seascapes, our work strengthened marine ecosystems while unlocking livelihoods, leadership, and local ownership.
Action For Ocean at the 11th Our Ocean Conference in Mombasa: eight sessions, one ORRAA funding announcement, and the argument that coastal communities are not conservation’s last mile. They are its first.
Reflection on the Honeyguide TZ visit · Community Marine Conservation Series · March 2026 Tanzania’s Wildlife Management Areas have spent two decades wrestling with the
The 2025 Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Symposium in Mombasa offered something rare in the conservation sector: clarity. Not the soft, convenient kind that fits
