
Smithsonian: the community-led conservation advocate working to protect Madagascar’s coasts
Read an interview with Vatosoa Rakotondrazafy of MIHARI, Madagascar’s locally managed marine area network, for Smithsonian Magazine.
Read an interview with Vatosoa Rakotondrazafy of MIHARI, Madagascar’s locally managed marine area network, for Smithsonian Magazine.
A new article from BBC travel explores the life of small-scale fishers and coastal communities on Atauro Island, Timor-Leste.
As an Ashoka Fellow, Blue Ventures’ Executive Director Alasdair Harris recently contributed to Ashoka’s new report on planet and climate action.
In an article for WIOMSA’s monthly newsbrief, Hanjara Rabemanantsoa, Blue Ventures’ mangroves coordinator in Tsimipaika Bay, shares the journey of alternative charcoal producers.
Learn about the role of women in Indonesia’s artisanal fisheries in a blog from Walton Family Foundation.
Blue Ventures’ livelihoods lead in Madagascar, Hery Lova Razafimamonjiraibe, shared insights into community-based sea cucumber farming in a webinar for Reef Resilience Network
Blue Ventures’ Director of Community Healh, Dr Vik Mohan, shares personal insights on Blue Ventures’ holistic approach to conservation
In an interview for Forbes, Blue Ventures’ Executive Director celebrates small-scale fishers as the unsung heroes of marine conservation
In an article for Mongabay, experts from Blue Ventures, Maliasili, Lion Guardians and the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation explore the potential for a more resilient, diverse, and effective conservation movement in 2021.
The Kenya Star covers the work of Local Ocean Conservation, a community-based organisation working in Watamu, which is also part of Blue Ventures’ and Maliasili’s African Marine Conservation Leadership Programme
The Conversation features Blue Ventures’ involvement in a new tool, making mangrove mapping accessible to community-led conservation projects.
Read an article in WIOMSA’s December newsbrief about the African Marine Conservation Leadership Programme, facilitated by Blue Ventures and Maliasili
Watch a new film from Beautiful News which explores Blue Ventures’ work in southwest Madagascar to support coastal communities
As part of it’s ‘The Last Coral Kingdom’, Only One has featured two stories written by Blue Ventures’ staff in Timor-Leste.
Lalao Aigrette’s, Blue Ventures’ National Blue Forests Programme Lead in Madagascar, recent article in WIOMSA’s magazine discusses participatory mangrove conservation in the Bay of Assassins.
An article for Save our Seas Foundation explores coral bleaching and how we are working with fellow marine conservation organisation, CORDIO, to collect and record reef data for better coral conservation in the Western Indian Ocean.
An English translation of Nisa Syahidah’s article for Mongabay Indonesia, exploring how community-based organisations in Indonesia are supporting fisher communities to adapt to COVID-19.
The IUCN lists Tahiry Honko as one of ten key projects developing sustainable coastal management around the world.
In an article from MPA News, the role of blue carbon in funding marine conservation initiatives around the world is highlighted, featuring two mangrove restoration projects that are forging a path for blue carbon finance
In an article from The Fish Site exploring potential new avenues for the European Union’s (EU) aquaculture sector, Blue Ventures’ ten year experience farming sea cucumbers in Madagascar is referenced.
Cartier Philanthropy highlights our holistic approach to respond to the impacts of COVID-19
As global demand for sea cucumbers increases, the need to support alternative livelihood options for coastal communities in Madagascar is even more urgent, both for people and for the environment.
The announcement of new mud crab export permits in Madagascar supports the need to back locally led efforts to conserve mangroves and develop alternative livelihoods.
Our latest research, which shows that community-led marine conservation leads to more fish in the sea, has been featured by Mongabay.
A study recently published by the Reef Resilience Network outlines Blue Ventures’ sea cucumber farming initiatives in southwest Madagascar, and discusses the successes and key lessons learned.
Impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on vulnerable communities in the Global South go far beyond the looming public health emergency.
While global efforts to tackle poverty are making progress, conservation isn’t following the same trajectory. The world’s oceans are warming and the abundance of life on earth is dropping at rates unprecedented in human history.
An article has been published in Samudra, the triannual journal of the International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF), celebrating the achievements of the Darawa community in Indonesia, who successfully reopened their first temporary octopus fishery closure in 2018 and have since taken a community-led approach to managing their octopus fisheries.
In a recently published article by Rapid Transition Alliance, education for girls has been denoted as a “powerful catalyst for rapid change” in tackling the climate emergency.
Blue Ventures has been working in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) with coastal communities in Zanzibar to diversify their fishing and farming activities by providing training and technical support in sea cucumber aquaculture.