Pamoja Tuhifadhi Bahari Yetu

Inventory and ecological health assessment of coral reefs, seagrass and seaweed and valuation of ecosystems goods and services across Tanzania’s coastal and marine areas.

ASUTA is carrying out a coast-wide inventory and ecological health assessment across five monitoring zones, and valuing the goods and services these ecosystems provide.

5: Monitoring zones
70: Sites
2026–27: Duration

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Butterflyfish over a coral reef, Tanzania

Massive Porites coral colony with anemonefish, Zanzibar

Sea urchins among seagrass on a sandy seabed

Dense seaweed canopy on a shallow reef flat

Mixed seagrass, seaweed and sandy benthic habitat

Monitoring zones

Surveyed

Tanga

Dar es Salaam

03Surveyed

Pemba–Unguja

Mafia–Songo Songo

Mtwara

Funded by

European Union (EU)’s funded program, channeled through the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and Co-Implemented by The Nature Conservancy (TNC) & Asasi ya Uwezashaji Tanzania (ASUTA).

Implementing partners

Implemented by ASUTA with the institutions below.

Marine Parks and Reserves Unit

TAFIRI — Tanzania Fisheries Research Institute

University of Dar es Salaam

ZAFIRI — Zanzibar Fisheries and Marine Resources Research Institute

SUZA — State University of Zanzibar

BlueGreen Tanzania Consulting