Blue Ventures is launching new support partnerships with the Endangered Wildlife Trust and Peace Parks Foundation in Mozambique.
New study highlights the decrease in marine turtle nesting in Madagascar and the role that community-based monitoring could play in monitoring, and protecting, remaining sites.
Blue Ventures has today committed to a collaboration with the WWF, one of the world’s best-known conservation organisations.
Efforts to advance sustainable development in Madagascar received a boost last week as more than 20 health and conservation organisations came together to establish new partnerships and share learning.
Blue Ventures is proud to announce the launch of our first ecotourism and marine conservation expedition in Timor-Leste.
Blue Ventures is excited to have joined the Our Sea Our Life partnership in Mozambique, working with ZSL, AMA (Associação do Meio Ambiente), Bioclimate, CORDIO and other partners.
On Friday 26th Feb 2016 we’ll be sharing tales from the front line of marine conservation at Chester Zoo for the Flora & Fauna International NW group. Join us!
Between 1990 and 2010, due to both human and natural causes, 21% of the Madagascar’s mangroves – an area equivalent in size to 80,000 football pitches – were lost.
Blue Ventures today signed a new partnership agreement with ZEEZM in Timor-Leste. Together we will develop and promote locally led marine conservation, provide research and advisory services and support Timor-Leste’s nascent ecotourism industry.
Find out more about how our conservation ecotourism model enables the creation of locally and culturally relevant conservation and development programmes.
Blue Ventures is excited to be joining forces with ZSL, AMA (Associação do Meio Ambiente), Bioclimate, CORDIO and other partners on the Our Sea Our Life Project (OSOL), project in Mozambique.
Blue Ventures has worked in Belize since 2010 and as well as our conservation, research and volunteer activities we work closely with Belizean Government departments and community-based organisations.
Find out what happens when 84 marine conservationists come together to share ideas, celebrate our mission, and dance!
Blue Ventures is embarking on a new programme in Timor-Leste, working with communities, government agencies, and conservation partners to develop locally-led marine conservation in the crucible of marine biodiversity.
WWF has presented the 2015 Duke of Edinburgh Conservation Award to Dr Alasdair Harris and Mr Alifereti Tawake for their significant contributions to marine conservation.
Madagascar’s President Hery Rajaonarimampianina met with conservationists at the University of Cambridge, placing marine management high on the agenda.
New publication reviews current protection of marine megafauna in Madagascar, highlighting the current lack of legislation and enforcement to protect endangered sharks in Madagascar.
At the end of October, Blue Ventures staff visited the tropical island of Hainan in southern China to promote our award-winning conservation tourism expeditions and to cement our partnership with new conservation organisation ChinaBlue.
More than 100 LMMA practitioners from communities around Madagascar gathered with NGO partners, government officials and international guests at the MIHARI forum.
Blue Ventures staff presented a unique vision of blue carbon as an incentive for community led mangrove conservation and restoration at the 8th Meeting of the Blue Carbon Initiative’s Scientific Working Group, in Zanzibar.
Blue Ventures Expeditions was the winner of the “Outstanding Volunteer Project” award at the Global Youth Travel Awards.
Late August saw the arrival in Madagascar of some very special visitors – a group of Mexican fishermen traveled more than 17,500 kilometres to have a conversation with their local counterparts about octopus.
New publication has mapped, quantified loss, characterised ecological variability, and provided the first estimates of the carbon stocks in one of Africa’s largest and most pristine mangrove ecosystems.
A landmark study from the Indian Ocean island of Madagascar highlights the compelling economic benefits of local fisheries management and their role in catalysing community engagement in broader marine management efforts.
London, UK – Google Maps launches first-ever Street View imagery of Madagascar, allowing a global audience to explore the world’s fourth largest island for the first time.
Oxford, UK – Blue Ventures’ pioneering efforts to rebuild tropical fisheries with coastal communities have been awarded the 2015 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship.
London, United Kingdom – Blue Ventures’ unique lionfish dive trip to Belize has been named as one of National Geographic’s 50 Tours of a Lifetime 2015.
London, UK – We’re delighted to partner with Mission Blue – a global alliance devoted to exploring and caring for our oceans – to contribute to the Explore the Ocean layer of Google Earth.
Stone Town, Zanzibar – Blue Ventures led a landmark meeting in Zanzibar, bringing together 65 delegates from 13 countries across east Africa and the western Indian Ocean to discuss strategies to improve the management of Africa’s small-scale fisheries .
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