Conservation in Action

Our Stories

Research, community wins, and the long game of protecting Mozambique's marine ecosystems.

  • Community Fisheries Data Workshop

    Local fishers reviewed four years of landing data at a workshop in Guinjata, shaping the next round of…

  • Manta Ray Sighting Rate Update

    Sightings of both reef and oceanic manta rays dropped for the third consecutive season — what our long-term…

  • New Whale Shark Individual Catalogued

    A juvenile tagged ‘LTO-WS-087’ joined our identification database last week after two independent photo-ID matches from visiting divers.

  • School Snorkelling Programme Grows

    Over 200 local school children joined the LTO marine literacy programme this year, many experiencing reef snorkelling for…

  • Reef Fish Biomass Survey, Season 7

    Our longest-running quantitative fish survey across seven transects — the 2024 numbers, and what they say about the…

  • Ghost Net Removal Dive

    LTO and the Guinjata fishing cooperative pulled a 40m abandoned net off the outer reef, freeing two trapped…

  • Tagging Loggerheads at Night

    Every nesting season, a volunteer team monitors turtle tracks along the beach, tagging adults and cataloguing clutches for…

  • Whale Shark Nursery Documented

    First-of-its-kind evidence of juvenile whale sharks aggregating along the Mozambique coast, supporting the case for marine protected area…

  • Community-led Reef Monitoring

    Local volunteers are conducting long-term ecological monitoring across the bay, training divers to document bleaching, species counts and…