Pamoja Tuhifadhi Bahari Yetu

A national assessment of Tanzania’s coral reefs, seagrass and seaweed.

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
3: Ecosystems
2026–27: Assignment

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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

Supported under the European Union’s €110 million Blue Economy for Job Creation and Climate Change Adaptation Programme, channelled through IUCN and commissioned by The Nature Conservancy.

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