Mangrove & blue carbon
Tidal-wetland restoration and conservation where most of the carbon sits below ground and the monitoring burden is highest.
Regions and countries
The hub's profiled projects and the registry entries are counted together. An entry that names several countries is counted under each.
Africa21
| Country | Entries |
|---|---|
| Benin | 1 |
| Cameroon | 2 |
| Côte d'Ivoire | 1 |
| Egypt | 1 |
| Guinea | 1 |
| Guinea-Bissau | 1 |
| Kenya | 3 |
| Madagascar | 1 |
| Mozambique | 1 |
| Nigeria | 2 |
| Senegal | 5 |
| Seychelles | 1 |
| Somalia | 1 |
Asia and the Pacific13
| Country | Entries |
|---|---|
| India | 3 |
| Indonesia | 4 |
| Myanmar | 1 |
| Pakistan | 1 |
| Sri Lanka | 2 |
| Vietnam | 2 |
Latin America and the Caribbean6
| Country | Entries |
|---|---|
| Colombia | 1 |
| Dominican Republic | 1 |
| Mexico | 4 |
Other regions3
| Country | Entries |
|---|---|
| Oman | 1 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 |
| UAE | 1 |
Projects
ABC Mangrove
Over 7,000 hectares of Senegalese tidal mangrove restored on a fully digitized VM0033 carbon workflow.
Abu Dhabi Blue Carbon / Jubail Mangrove Park Programme
A long-running, multi-partner mangrove programme, described by the Environment Agency Abu Dhabi as among the oldest known mangrove restoration initiatives.
Adiaké Blue Carbon
An early-stage coastal restoration for blue carbon in Côte d'Ivoire.
Bhitarkanika Mangrove Restoration
Mangrove restoration in Bhitarkanika National Park, Odisha, using the fishbone method of canal construction.
BluEdea Cameroon Mangrove Restoration
Apolownia's proposed BluEdea restoration around the Douala-Edéa coastal mangroves.
BlueMX Aztlán Blue Carbon Project
A filed blue-carbon restoration design for Nayarit’s coastal wetlands.
Ca Mau Mangrove Restoration
Restoring and protecting 1,500 ha of mangroves across six coastal communes of Ca Mau, from 2026 to 2032.
CAMERR
Planète Urgence’s filed mangrove restoration design in the Wouri estuary.
CI-Atabey Blue Carbon Exchange
A dedicated blue-carbon credit mechanism for the Dominican Republic's mangroves, still in development.
Cross River Mangrove Restoration
A COP28 agreement to act on 57,000 hectares of mangrove in Cross River State, aDryada's largest Nigerian commitment.
Delta Blue Carbon – 1
A blue-carbon project restoring arid-climate mangroves across the Indus Delta.
Gandhavi Mangrove Regeneration Project
A community-led mangrove plantation in Gujarat, run mostly by local women's self-help groups.
Guinea-Bissau Mangrove Restoration
Tides let back into abandoned rice fields, healing mangroves through natural regeneration not mass planting.
Lep-lep
A triple-stacked mangrove restoration across Senegal's Sine Saloum and Casamance deltas.
Mangrove Ecosystem Restoration Solution (MERS)
A university-run mangrove restoration and livelihoods programme on Egypt's Red Sea coast.
Mangrove Restoration and Coastal Community Livelihood Diversification (MR-CCLD), Somalia
A government pilot that trained stakeholders, surveyed mangroves in three coastal districts and planted 1,000 mangroves.
Mangrove Restoration Project, Konkouré Delta
A 500-hectare mangrove restoration programme in the Konkouré delta, following an earlier BirdLife-partner phase in the Tristao Islands.
Mangroves for Coastal Resilience (M4CR)
A USD 400 million, results-based World Bank effort to restore Indonesia's vast mangrove estate.
Mekong Delta Mangrove Restoration
Mangroves replanted across working shrimp farms in Cà Mau, blending forest recovery with farmer income.
Mikoko Pamoja
Described by its partner ACES as the world's first community-led mangrove blue carbon project, in Kenya's Gazi Bay.
MozBlue / Zambezi Delta Blue Carbon
A mangrove restoration in Mozambique, with 60-year land deals securing community tenure.
Niger Delta Mangrove Restoration
Described by First Climate as the first nature-based project registered with Verra in Nigeria, planting a million mangroves a year.
Oceanium / Livelihoods Carbon Fund
Roughly 80 million mangroves replanted across Senegal's deltas.
Oman Blue Carbon
Reported by Oman News Agency as the first Omani project to use mangroves for carbon credits: over 100 million mangroves on 20,000 hectares in Al Wusta.
Papariko
Described by its developer Vlinder as Kenya's first Verra-validated blue carbon project, restoring degraded coastal mangroves under a triple-stacked standard.
Red Sea Global Mangrove Program
A Saudi Arabian mangrove restoration effort, transplanting millions of seedlings across the Al Wajh Lagoon.
San Crisanto / Yucatán Blue Carbon
A Mayan community rebuilt hurricane-wrecked mangroves into a certified blue carbon project.
Seychelles Blue Carbon
Seychelles put seagrass and mangrove into its climate pledge, funded by a debt swap.
Southern Benin Mangrove Resilience Project
An FAO-run mangrove conservation project across nine coastal municipalities, reopening waterways and restoring fisheries.
Sri Lanka Mangrove Restoration
A UN World Restoration Flagship aiming to expand national mangrove cover by more than half.
Sri Lanka Mangroves for Resilience Project
Turtle Conservation Project and VNV restoring 3,000 hectares of coastal mangrove and lagoon across Sri Lanka.
Tahiry Honko
Ten Vezo communities protect the Bay of Assassins mangroves in a Plan Vivo project.
Thor Heyerdahl Climate Park
A VCS blue carbon restoration, part of a wider WIF mangrove program in Myanmar.
Vanga Blue Forest
A community mangrove project in Kenya, scaling the Gazi Bay model to 460 hectares.
Vida Manglar
VCS blue-carbon credits under Verra's tidal-wetland modules, conserving Cispatá Bay.
WeForest Casamance & Sine-Saloum
Four mangrove species replanted at up to 5,000 trees a hectare across Senegal's two great estuaries.
Yagasu Mangrove Restoration
A blue carbon restoration with 30 million mangroves planted across Sumatra's degraded coast.
Yagasu-Apolownia Mangrove Carbon Project
A 3,300-hectare mangrove carbon project awaiting Verra listing.
Yagasu-VNV Mangrove Carbon Project
An 8,000-hectare mangrove carbon project validated by the Gold Standard.