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Trustee Tara’s interest is in community-based techniques for the sustainable management of marine resources. |
21 December 2011, New York. A 14-year study finds need for increased protections for parrotfish and other herbivores in marine reserves.
15 December 2011, Madagascar. Blue Ventures has built on their marine turtle fishery and conservation programme as their awareness-raising marine turtle festival has expanded 400 km northwards along the west coast of Madagascar.
Read more: Marine turtle festival spreads up the west coast of Madagascar
25 November 2011, London. Marine Expeditions organisation Blue Ventures has been selected as a finalist in the Green Tourism Award at the British Youth Travel Awards.
Read more: Blue Ventures Expeditions honoured as finalist in the British Youth Travel Awards
21 November 2011, Maintirano, Madagascar. In late November a team of marine scientists and environmental reporters will embark on a pioneering research expedition along the remote west coast of Madagascar. Based aboard a traditional Malagasy wooden sailing dhow, the international team will survey the health and biodiversity of the Barren Isles, a 100km long chain of coral islands off the west coast of the Madagascar; working above and below the water to support the conservation of one of the Mozambique Channel's remotest and least known coral reef archipelagos.
16 November 2011, Belo-sur-Mer Madagascar. The morning of November 11th saw the opening of two pioneering community-managed mangrove reserves in western Madagascar. Over 200 fishers attended the opening of the two fishing sites, covering an area of approximately 200 hectares, in order to reap the benefits of a temporary closure that has prohibited all forms of fishing and mangrove cutting for the past 19 weeks.
Read more: Hundreds of fishers gather for opening of mangrove fishery reserves in western Madagascar
15 November 2011, Andavadoaka, Madagascar. Dans le cadre du renforcement de capacité des étudiants malgaches dans le domaine de la conservation marine, Blue Ventures lance pour sa troisième année le programme "Bourse d'études Roger Samba" 2011-2012.
Read more: Lancement du programme 'bourse d’études Roger Samba' 2011-2012
31 October, 2011, Worldwide. Today the world's population will exceed 7 billion people, bringing into sharp focus some of the immense challenges facing the sustainability of the world's natural resources. Not least because at the heart of this statistic lies something deeply troubling: globally, 200 million women are unable to access safe and effective family planning methods.
Read more: Population 7 billion: enterprising approaches to making family planning available to all
28 October, 2011, Mombasa, Kenya. The first phase of a new website, dedicated to providing open-access educational materials that support community-based marine conservation, was launched in Mombasa, Kenya today at the 7th biannual Symposium of the Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association (WIOMSA).
17 October, 2011, Madagascar. In a groundbreaking new partnership, UNICEF is working with Blue Ventures to enhance its community-based conservation program through innovative, technological teaching tools for the youth of coastal southwest Madagascar.
15 October, 2011, London. The Shark Alliance, a coalition of more than 100 conservation, scientific and recreational organisations, is launching the fifth annual European Shark Week today by calling on European Union (EU) fisheries ministers to protect sharks from overexploitation and finning - the wasteful practice of slicing off a shark's fins and discarding the body at sea
Read more: European Shark Week opens with call to "Make the PUSH" to protect Europe's sharks
10 October, 2011, Brussels. Today artisanal fishers and civil society groups are rallying in
17 August, 2011, London. The European Union (EU) has unfinished business with sharks. European citizens are calling on EU fisheries ministers to make the push and protect sharks from overexploitation and to urgently strengthen the EU regulation that bans the wasteful practice of 'finning' (slicing off a shark's fins and discarding the body at sea).
Read more: EU fisheries ministers must make the push to protect sharks
21 June, 2011, Antananarivo, Madagascar. A recent study has shed light on the exceptional conservation importance of one of the Indian Ocean’s least known archipelagos.
Read more: New study highlights critical threats to Madagascar’s remotest coral reef archipelago
16 June 2011, Antananarivo, Madagascar. Fish catches in Madagascar over the last half-century are double official reports, and much of that fish is being caught by unregulated traditional fishers or accessed cheaply by foreign fishing vessels.
Read more: International markets for seafood plunder Madagascar's marine resources
11 June 2011, New York. Blue Ventures, a London-based marine conservation organisation, won the prestigious Buckminster Fuller Challenge award last night for its work to protect marine resources and improve the livelihoods of poor coastal communities in Madagascar.
Read more: Blue Ventures wins Buckminster Fuller Challenge 2011
