I had been intending to write a comprehensive, witty, blog about my time here in Andavadoaka but for the last few days the weather has been absolutely stunning so we have all been doing some quite amazing things. For the last two days I have spent my time cruising around in a motorized pirogue visiting [...]

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Hello everybody, here are some news from Andavadoaka. Thomas and I went to the Southern villages to collect the data on shark and turtle catch as well as the pictures. We took a different mode of transportation this time as the weather was not very good and sailing might be dangerous. So we took a [...]

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Blue Ventures wants to congratulate Bic, one of our local Malagasy staff members, for receiving his Dive Master certification.
Bic, who has been with Blue Ventures since its founding three years ago, is the first member of the Andavadoaka community to ever earn the Dive Master certification.
Bic’s dedication to marine conservation and education has made him [...]

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Blue Ventures’ founder Alasdair Harris was recently highly commended in the Young Enterprising Brits Award and received his honour over breakfast with Gordon Brown in Downing Street. Following Enterprise week in November 2006 a video was developed summarising all the shortlisted projects (follow link below BV is at about 1min 45). A social enterprise, is [...]

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Expedition 27Well the rains have arrived in Andavadoaka, Madagascar. Upon arriving in Andavadoaka in mid-September, it was hot and dry; so dry that I did not see rain for almost three months. So when someone promised that it did, in fact, rain in Madagascar; I could not believe her. However, the past week and a [...]

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