Action For Ocean
Features
Everything published about the work of Action For Ocean and Tanzania's coastal communities in 2025.
WIOMSA
AFO's session at the 13th WIOMSA Scientific Symposium on what the octopus closures in Kilwa have actually produced, and what is still stalling.
WIOMSA
The Matumbawe Hai approach to reef restoration presented to the regional marine science community at WIOMSA 2025.
Featuring Esther Mhamila
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A university intern on what changes when a young Tanzanian gets into the water for the first time with real training behind them.
Featuring Baraka
New York Climate Week
AFO on the Spotlight Africa stage at New York Climate Week, making the case for community held conservation finance.
IUCN World Conservation Congress 2025
Speaker profile for the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Abu Dhabi, where Jerry Mang'ena appeared across three sessions.
Featuring Jerry Mang'ena
3BL Media
The foundation's announcement of its grant round, naming AFO among the partners funded to widen access to finance in coastal communities.
Ocean Opportunities
AFO's entry in the Ocean Connections directory, the sector listing of organisations working on ocean livelihoods and conservation.
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From the DiveLab Diaries series, on why local certification matters more to reef recovery than visiting expertise.
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The case for seaweed as both a livelihood for coastal women and a form of ecosystem protection, set out by AFO's executive director.
Featuring Jerry Mang'ena
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ORRAA
ORRAA's short film on the mangrove carbon project, embedded on its own project page.
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Whole Foods Market
Whole Foods Market's film on village savings and loan associations as a route out of poverty, drawing on the groups AFO supports on the Tanzanian coast.
Rare, UN Ocean Conference 2025
AFO on the programme at the third UN Ocean Conference in Nice, in Rare's session on getting finance to the communities who manage coastal resources.
Nature
Nature's career series profiles Amenipa Kyando, an aquatic scientist at Aqua-Farms Organization in Dar es Salaam, on working alongside the women farming seaweed on the Fumba…
Featuring Amenipa Lawi Kyando
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BBC Africa Daily
Alan Kasujja speaks to Pragna and Noel Kok of NEWF and to Nancy Iraba, a marine scientist from Tanzania, about her route into wildlife filmmaking and…
Featuring Nancy Iraba
Maliasili
Maliasili's standing profile of AFO as a partner organisation, covering the model, the four seascapes and the headline impact figures.
287,240 mangroves restored. 69 communities in co-management across Tanzania’s coast. None of it happens without people like you.