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![]() East Africa is a region of extraordinary beauty and rich biological diversity. Many of its spectacular natural features, such as the Serengeti plain and Mount Kilimanjaro, are world renowned. But the region also boasts an incredible wealth of tropical marine ecosystems, including extensive mangroves, diverse coral reefs, sea grass beds, and productive offshore waters where the circulation and meeting of ocean currents ensures a rich supply of nutrients.
While many parts of the region's marine ecosystem remains relatively
intact, increasing deforestation, dynamite fishing, over fishing and
pollution are a growing threat to the ecology of these zones. WWF is
working to establish marine protected areas throughout the region - with
some success already reported from important areas such as Mafia Island
in Tanzania - and to promote the sustainable use of natural resources so
that the region's full wealth of marine biodiversity can be maintained.
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