For the past decade, we have pioneered globally-acclaimed approaches to community-based marine conservation.
All too often, marine conservation efforts fail because of market economics: and the costs of action far outweigh the perceived benefits of inaction.
Our conservation strategy is simple. We focus on innovating scalable economic incentives for marine conservation.
Using these market-based tools, we champion a holistic approach to marine conservation, integrating fisheries management, sustainable alternative livelihoods, local capacity building, public health, and social marketing for behaviour change.
Our highly acclaimed conservation programmes work with some of the world’s poorest coastal communities to develop conservation and alternative income initiatives to protect biodiversity and coastal livelihoods. The results of our work help us to propose new ideas to benefit coastal communities everywhere.
Blue Ventures is developing new models for financing marine protected areas by demonstrating the economic advantages of responsible fisheries management, in partnership with fisheries supply chains and communities to add value to catches through conservation and eco-certification.
Blue Ventures’ holistic approach to marine conservation prioritises the development of sustainable alternative livelihood programmes for coastal communities.
Blue Ventures is directly addressing the environmental challenges of human population pressures through integrated initiatives.
Coral reefs are among the most vulnerable ecosystems on earth to the impacts of climate change and are now deteriorating on a scale that predicts the loss of sixty percent by 2030.
Throughout much of the Indian Ocean shark and turtle populations are in terminal decline, with devastating ecological consequences.
Blue Ventures is helping developing world communities link the conservation of mangrove, seagrass and coastal wetland habitats to international carbon markets.
Peer-to-peer learning is one of the most effective tools for community conservation.
Download and read reports and papers published in peer-reviewed journals; and our quarterly research updates from our remote field sites.
