Projects

The work on the ground.

92 real reforestation, mangrove and forest-conservation projects worldwide, profiled through the lens of digital MRV: who runs them, what they claim, and what it takes to prove it. The demand side of the solutions that measure them.

Kenya: 9 projectsSenegal: 7 projectsIndonesia: 6 projectsZambia: 6 projectsDR Congo: 6 projectsBrazil: 5 projectsTanzania: 4 projectsMadagascar: 3 projectsIndia: 3 projectsUnited States: 3 projectsNigeria: 3 projectsCôte d'Ivoire: 3 projectsColombia: 2 projectsMexico: 2 projectsCameroon: 2 projectsSierra Leone: 2 projectsSouth Africa: 2 projectsGhana: 2 projectsEthiopia: 2 projectsUganda: 2 projectsMozambique: 2 projectsPakistan: 1 projectSaudi Arabia: 1 projectSri Lanka: 1 projectVietnam: 1 projectGuinea-Bissau: 1 projectPeru: 1 projectCambodia: 1 projectMyanmar: 1 projectTogo: 1 projectBurkina Faso: 1 projectNiger: 1 projectSudan: 1 projectAustralia: 1 projectBolivia: 1 projectChina: 1 projectNepal: 1 project
92 projects · 37 countries · band = tropics (23.5°N–23.5°S)
Showing 92 of 92 projects
Mangrove forest in the Saloum Delta National Park, SenegalActive
Sine-Saloum Delta & Casamance estuary, Senegal

ABC Mangrove

Over 7,000 hectares of Senegalese tidal mangrove restored on a fully digitized VM0033 carbon workflow.

Verra VCS + CCB, VM0033 (digitized)View
Tree standing in the waters of the Saloum Islands, SenegalActive
Casamance estuary & Sine-Saloum Delta, Senegal

WeForest Casamance & Sine-Saloum

Four mangrove species replanted at up to 5,000 trees a hectare across Senegal's two great estuaries.

Verra VCS + CCBView
Satellite view of Karachi and the Indus River Delta, PakistanActive
Indus Delta, Sindh, Pakistan

Delta Blue Carbon

The world's largest blue-carbon project, restoring arid-climate mangroves across the Indus Delta.

Verra VCS + CCB (triple gold), VM0033View
View over Bahía de Cispatá, San Antero, Córdoba, Colombia, where the Vida Manglar mangroves are locatedActive
Cispatá Bay, Gulf of Morrosquillo, Colombia

Vida Manglar

The first VCS blue-carbon credits under Verra's tidal-wetland modules, conserving Cispatá Bay.

Verra VCS + CCB, VM0007View
Community members planting mangrove saplings on the coast at Kampong Jawa, Banda Aceh, IndonesiaActive
Riau, North Sumatra & Kalimantan, Indonesia

Mangroves for Coastal Resilience (M4CR)

A USD 400 million, results-based World Bank effort to restore Indonesia's vast mangrove estate.

World Bank IPF with Performance-Based ConditionsView
Mangroves on an island in the Saloum delta, SenegalActive
Casamance & Sine-Saloum deltas, Senegal

Oceanium / Livelihoods Carbon Fund

Roughly 80 million mangroves replanted across Senegal's deltas in the world's largest such effort.

Verra VCSView
Wooden boardwalk through coastal mangroves in KenyaActive
Gazi Bay, Kwale County, Kenya

Mikoko Pamoja

The world's first community-led mangrove blue carbon project, in Kenya's Gazi Bay.

Plan Vivo (PV Climate)View
Fishers hauling a ring net at Vanga on the Kenyan coastActive
Vanga, Kwale County, Kenya

Vanga Blue Forest

Kenya's second community mangrove project, scaling the Gazi Bay model to 460 hectares.

Plan Vivo (PV Climate)View
Mangrove roots at Andavadoaka, southwest MadagascarActive
Bay of Assassins, Velondriake, SW Madagascar

Tahiry Honko

Ten Vezo communities protect the Bay of Assassins mangroves in a flagship Plan Vivo project.

Plan VivoView
Grey mangrove (Avicennia marina), the dominant Red Sea mangrove species, on the Red Sea coastActive
Al Wajh Lagoon, northeastern Red Sea coast, Saudi Arabia

Red Sea Global Mangrove Program

Saudi Arabia's largest mangrove effort, transplanting millions of seedlings across the Al Wajh Lagoon.

No third-party carbon certification (tied to the Saudi Green Initiative)View
Mangrove forest in Kalpitiya, Sri LankaActive
Coastal lagoons and estuaries nationwide, Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka Mangrove Restoration

A UN World Restoration Flagship aiming to expand national mangrove cover by more than half.

No carbon certification (UN Decade World Restoration Flagship)View
Pier through a coastal lagoon and mangroves at Celestún, northern YucatánActive
San Crisanto, Sinanché municipality, northern Yucatán, Mexico

San Crisanto / Yucatán Blue Carbon

A Mayan community rebuilt hurricane-wrecked mangroves into one of Mexico's first certified blue carbon projects.

Climate Action Reserve (CAR) Mexico Forest ProtocolView
Flooded mangrove and melaleuca forest and waterway at Tra Su, Mekong Delta, VietnamEarly stage
Cà Mau Province, Mekong Delta, southern Vietnam

Mekong Delta Mangrove Restoration

Mangroves replanted across working shrimp farms in Cà Mau, blending forest recovery with farmer income.

No carbon certification (carbon framed as a co-benefit)View
Coastal granite-island scenery along the Anse Major trail, Mahé, SeychellesActive
Republic of Seychelles, western Indian Ocean

Seychelles Blue Carbon

The first nation to put seagrass and mangrove into its climate pledge, funded by a pioneering debt swap.

No carbon certification (national mapping feeding the GHG inventory)View
The Rio Farim-Cacheu estuary near Cacheu Mangroves Natural Park, Guinea-BissauActive
Cacheu and Cantanhez National Parks, coastal Guinea-Bissau

Guinea-Bissau Mangrove Restoration

Tides let back into abandoned rice fields, healing mangroves through natural regeneration not mass planting.

No carbon certification (GEF biodiversity and livelihoods framing)View
Entrance to the Mami Water creek in Douala-Edéa National Park, CameroonEarly stage
Douala-Edéa National Park and Wouri/Ntem estuaries, Cameroon

Cameroon Mangrove Blue Carbon

Parallel restoration and carbon efforts revive Cameroon's most degraded Atlantic mangrove around Douala-Edéa.

BluEdea under Verra VM0033 (ex-ante); CAMERR uncertifiedView
Mangrove ecosystem on the Mozambique coastEarly stage
Zambezi River Delta, Zambézia and Sofala provinces, Mozambique

MozBlue / Zambezi Delta Blue Carbon

Marketed as Africa's largest mangrove restoration, with 60-year land deals securing community tenure.

Verra VCS (VM0033) and CCB (issuance status unconfirmed)View
Leptopelis macrotis tree frog recorded in Gola Rainforest National ParkActive
Gola Rainforest National Park, Eastern Province, Sierra Leone

Gola Rainforest REDD+

West Africa's first VCS+CCB REDD+ project guards Sierra Leone's largest surviving Upper Guinean rainforest.

Verra VCS + CCB (Double Gold), VCS 1201View