In the Media

Blue Ventures and the indigenous community of Andavadoaka, the Vezo, have been featured in Madagascar's premier economic journal.

Quote: 'By promoting and helping to organize ecotourism, nonprofits benefit by raising awareness -- and money -- for their causes. The draw for travelers? Gaining access to places that they wouldn't be able to get to otherwise. ..."Tourism can be a powerful conservation tool," said Alasdair Harris, founder and executive director of Blue Ventures, a ...

Blue Ventures leads octopus conservation efforts in Madagascar.

Blue Ventures is featured in Responsible Travel Magazine after being "highly commended" for eco-trips at the 2007 Responsible Travel Awards.

Blue Ventures' Research Development Manager was interviewed in The Royal Gazette, Bermuda's premiere newspaper.

Student delegates selected by more than 30 public and private schools throughout the Island attended last week's two-day conference entitled The Power of One. Students aged ten and upwards met many of Bermuda's local scientists and environmentalists and took part in workshops designed to give hands-on experience in conservation projects. The keynote speaker was conservationist ...

The researchers found that after an area off the coast of the Indian Ocean island nation was closed to fishermen for seven months, the number of octopus caught later rose 13 times while the total weight of the octopus catch jumped 25 times. "The increase ... was far greater than we ever expected," said Alasdair ...