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

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. 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.

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.

Read the full analysis: https://bahrain.un.org/en/236327-hsbc-un-habitat-partner-save-bahrain%E2%80%99s-mangroves