Read more: Improving population health is an effective approach to conservation
London, 24th February 2010.
"Coastal Conservation offers survival for the poor” - Blue Ventures marine scientist wins international award for conservation Blue Ventures.
California, 9-10th February 2010. Blue Ventures has been warmly welcomed at the 16th Katoomba meeting focusing on Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) in the marine environment.
Read more: Celebrating market-based solutions to marine conservation
London, 27th January 2010. Blue Ventures is proud to announce that Georges ‘Bic’ Manahira, a conservationist at its groundbreaking research site in Andavadoaka, southwest Madagascar and the longest serving member of staff on site has recently been certified by the Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI) as Madagascar’s first Open Water Scuba Instructor.
London, 2nd November 2009. In 2003, Blue Ventures set out on an ambitious mission: to demonstrate that responsible tourism can be a powerful engine for sustainable, targeted conservation.
Read more: Blue Ventures wins 2010 Conde Nast Environmental Award
London, 28th October 2009 Blue Ventures has been short-listed in The Virgin Holidays Responsible Tourism Awards 2009, organised by responsibletravel.com.
London, 7th September 2009 Grassroots coral reef conservation can postpone the collapse of whole ecosystems but for how long?
Read more: Statement - Local actions may be last hope for reefs
Blue Ventures has recently completed an ambitious expedition to document the contemporary migration of indigenous fishing communities in Madagascar.
Read more: The voyage of the Vezo - documenting Madagascar's indigenous coastal migration
London, 5th June 2009 – World Oceans Day, on the 8th June 2009, will see leading conservation organisations, educational institutions, communities and individuals in dozens of countries around the world celebrating the world’s oceans.
Read more: Developing world leads the way in protecting oceans
Andavadoaka, Madagascar. Blue Ventures' conservation scientist Gildas Andriamalala recently returned to Madagascar to establish the country's first Rare Pride Campaign, after receiving nine weeks of intensive training in the use of social marketing and communication in conservation,
Read more: Rare launches first conservation campaign in Madagascar with Blue Ventures
Andavadoaka, Madagascar. It started in a beach shack on the shore of the Mozambique Channel in Andavadoaka, a small coastal village in remote southwestern Madagascar. Four Rodrigan fishermen sat impassively facing the Malagasy fishermen, thrice their number, each measuring the other in the flickering candle light.
Today, Google launched a new version of their popular Google Earth software, with added information on the state of the world's oceans.
Read more: Blue Ventures contributes to the new Google Earth
A remote fishing village in southern Madagascar has sold its first batch of locally farmed sea cucumbers - believed to be a potent love medicine in southeast Asia - and is hoping to cash in on the lucrative market for unusual aphrodisiacs in advance of Chinese New Year next month.
Read more: Coastal communities cash in on lucrative love medicine
Seafaring auction signals full steam ahead for pioneering family planning clinic.
Blue Ventures was selected as a finalist in the Ashoka & National Geographic Changemakers Geotourism Challenge in October 2008 and in November 2008 was highly commended for Best Volunteering Organisation at the Responsible Tourism Awards, at the World Travel Market.
Read more: Blue Ventures honoured at two major industry awards
