Aerial view of a forested rocky coastline meeting breaking surf

Our work

Conservation& EcosystemRestoration

Protecting the ecosystems wildlife depends on.

20,000+ mangroves planted · women-led

Protecting the ecosystems wildlife depends on. Combining institutional policy co-financing with community-led coastal mangrove canopy bio-shield restoration across East African marine corridors.

The challenge

Enforcement protects wildlife from being taken. It does not, on its own, protect the places wildlife needs. Coastal degradation, habitat loss and declining ecosystem resilience remove the ground the species stand on.

Along the Tanzanian coast, mangrove loss is the clearest example: it removes a nursery for marine life, a carbon store, and the natural defence that protects communities from erosion and storm surge.

Mangrove prop-roots standing over clear sunlit water

Restoration is measured in decades. The Kigamboni mangrove project is ongoing.

Our approach

ATI addresses environmental protection through restoration as well as enforcement, working with coastal communities, government partners and funders on long-term stewardship rather than one-off events.

At the policy layer, ATI has co-financed formal instruments with Zanzibar's Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation, Natural Resources and Livestock: the Situational Analysis Report 2025 and the Zanzibar Unified Strategy for Natural Resources Security and Resilience 2026–2036.

ATI strengthens:

Coastal ecosystem restoration with community stewards
Long-term monitoring and maintenance of restored sites
Government policy and strategy development, through co-financing
Community environmental education and school-based planting

ATI provides technical training, capacity building and coordination support. Operational authority (investigation, arrest, seizure and prosecution) rests with statutory law enforcement and judicial authorities.

Programme overview

3
Documented activities: 2024–2025
Period covered
Countries represented: Tanzania
Where it was delivered: Kigamboni, Dar es Salaam · Zanzibar, Tanzania

Timeline

Programme activity

Entries are drawn from ATI's own dated programme documents, most recent first.

Within Jan 2025–Jul 2026 reporting period
Co-financed the Situational Analysis Report 2025 and ZUSNRS 2026–2036
Zanzibar, Tanzania
Verified policy outputs. No MoU-signing event is claimed here. The planned August 2026 MoU has not taken place.
March–June 2025
Green Africa Tree Planting Campaign with United Bank for Africa: 5,000 trees at three Kigamboni schools
Kigamboni, Dar es Salaam
22–26 July 2024
Kigamboni Mangrove Sapling Canopy Reforestation
Kigamboni, Dar es Salaam

Gallery

Photographs

Community steward tending newly planted mangrove seedlings through early establishment, Kigamboni District, Dar es Salaam. Reporting period 2025–2026.

Related project

Kigamboni Mangrove Restoration

ATI's principal conservation project is an ongoing, multi-stage coastal restoration in Dar es Salaam.

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Collaboration

Partners on this programme

Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar
Government
United Bank for Africa (UBA)
Green Africa Tree Planting Campaign, Kigamboni, 2025

Participants

Institutions that took part

Institutions that participated in ATI-convened training. Participants, not partners or endorsers of ATI.

President's Office – Regional Administration and Local Government
Office of the Vice President
Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation, Natural Resources and Livestock (MAINRL)
Ministry of Blue Economy and Fisheries
Zanzibar Environmental Management Authority (ZEMA)
Tanzania Police Force – Anti-Smuggling Special Unit
Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA)
Environment, fisheries and forestry authorities

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ATI collaborates with government agencies, regional bodies, funders and practitioners across East and Southern Africa.

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