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Tubli Bay Mangrove Restoration — Supreme Council for Environment & UN-Habitat/HSBC Partnership (Bahrain)

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Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 96% 20/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

Bahrain's Supreme Council for Environment protects Tubli Bay's Ramsar-listed mangroves (~48 ha in 2020) and, with UN-Habitat and HSBC, is restoring stands at Ras Sanad as part of a national pledge to plant 3.6 million trees and quadruple mangrove cover by 2035.

13.5 km²
Tubli Bay area
~48 ha
Bahrain mangrove cover (2020 baseline)
3.6 million trees by 2035
National tree-planting pledge
roughly 4x the 2020 cover by 2035
National mangrove area target
Tubli Bay Mangrove Restoration — Supreme Council for Environment & UN-Habitat/HSBC Partnership (Bahrain) Tubli Bay Mangrove Restoration — Supreme Council for Environment & UN-Habitat/HSBC Partnership (Bahrain)

Details

Maturity
Pilot
Promoter
Supreme Council for Environment (Bahrain), with UN-Habitat and HSBC
Period
1995-present (UN-Habitat/HSBC partnership 2020s-present)
Keywords
mangrove restoration, coastal wetlands, Ramsar site, blue carbon, urban nature-based solutions

Context

Tubli Bay, a 13.5 km² intertidal bay south of Manama, hosts Bahrain's largest mangrove (Avicennia marina) stands and has been a protected area since 1995 and a Ramsar Wetland of International Importance since 1997; Bahrain's Supreme Council for Environment (SCE) is the lead national authority for the site. As of 2020, Bahrain's mangrove cover stood at roughly 48 hectares, concentrated in Tubli Bay and Dohat Arad.

Activities

UN-Habitat and HSBC formed a partnership to restore mangrove stands at Ras Sanad within Tubli Bay, explicitly linking replanting to urban planning and community well-being rather than treating it as a stand-alone ecological project. The restoration sits within Bahrain's national pledge to plant 3.6 million trees by 2035 and to roughly quadruple the country's mangrove area over the same period, positioning mangroves as part of the kingdom's coastal-protection and climate strategy.

Conclusions

As a caveat, the sources reviewed describe a 2020 baseline and a 2035 target rather than completed hectares restored or a monitored survival rate to date. Unlike the Abu Dhabi and Oman blue-carbon programmes elsewhere in this catalogue, this practice is currently better evidenced as a protected-site legal framework with an early-stage restoration partnership than as a programme with demonstrated large-scale planting results.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Low (< €50k)
Time to results
Long (> 3 years)
Staffing & skills
Supreme Council for Environment (Bahrain) — lead national authority, UN-Habitat, HSBC (corporate partner)

Conditions for success

  • Long-standing legal protection (protected area since 1995, Ramsar site since 1997) providing a stable framework
  • National-level tree-planting and mangrove target (3.6 million trees, quadrupled mangrove cover by 2035) creating political commitment
  • Restoration explicitly linked to urban planning and community well-being rather than treated as a stand-alone ecological project

Common failure modes

  • No completed restoration hectares or monitored survival rate published to date — only a 2020 baseline and a 2035 target

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