Ghana’s participation in carbon reduction initiatives such as REDD+ has brought about renewed interest for data on carbon stocks as part of baseline setting. This study contributes scientific information to the database and specifically on mangrove carbon stocks (blue carbon) as an effort to deepen ecological and policy discussion for mangrove forest management in Ghana and other comparable West African countries. This study was commissioned on this basis to assess the above- and below-ground carbon pools in a degraded forest and non-degraded forest i.e. the Kakum and Amanzule mangrove forests respectively in order to evaluate the impact of environmental degradation on the ecosystems primarily driven by logging.