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BBC World Service: Sea Cucumbers Fixing The World
April 5, 2023
Blue Ventures on BBC’s People Fixing The World podcast for BBC World Service about how sea cucumber projects we support in Madagascar are benefiting communities,
Blue Ventures on BBC’s People Fixing The World podcast for BBC World Service about how sea cucumber projects we support in Madagascar are benefiting communities,
New research published this week in Aquaculture Environmental Interactions has found that sea cucumber aquaculture can positively impact seagrass meadows, increasing the growth rate of certain species.
Blue Ventures’ livelihoods lead in Madagascar, Hery Lova Razafimamonjiraibe, shared insights into community-based sea cucumber farming in a webinar for Reef Resilience Network
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.
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.
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.
In a recent article in Le Point, journalist Sylvie Rantrua explores an unusual yet valuable commodity that is improving the lives of coastal communities in the West Indian Ocean (WIO) – the sea cucumber.
November 2018 saw the first stocking of juvenile sea cucumbers in Ambolimoke and the first successful harvest and sale in Tampolove.
DW has released a short film showcasing our work establishing alternative livelihoods with the Tampolove community in southwest Madagascar.
The Thomson Reuters Foundation have produced a film about the Velondriake Locally Managed Marine Area following their visit to southwest Madagascar in 2018.
In a long-awaited moment for the Tampolove community, our aquaculture team, and our wider partners, juvenile sea cucumbers were stocked in the community pens yesterday.
A group of Blue Ventures volunteers recently visited the village of Tampolove in southwest Madagascar to learn about the sustainable aquaculture initiatives there.
Blue Ventures volunteer Amanda Millin has written a piece for Global Aquaculture Alliance about our community aquaculture programme.
DW recently published a piece about the impacts of declining fish stocks and climate change on coastal communities in Madagascar, and the alternative livelihoods that these communities are turning to as fishing becomes unsustainable.
Blue Ventures is featured in the March 2015 edition of Fish Farmer Magazine in an article exploring the impact of our community-based aquaculture programme.
Farming sea cucumbers in Madagascar for economic hope and conservation is featured on the National Geographic’s Ocean Views blog.
