Christmas with Blue Ventures
On Friday night the Blue Ventures London-based contingent met at the office for the Christmas party, which involved copious amounts of….pizza (kindly donated by Pizza Hut) and general festive tomfoolery. A great time was had by all (we hope)!
RCUK
‘Reef Conservation UK’, the annual meeting of the UK’s coral reef science and conservation community, took place at London Zoo on Saturday 10th December. There was an excellent turnout for the event, with three sessions of stimulating presentations, discussing recent...
News News News
Last week Blue Ventures staff were involved in meetings of all partners in the Andavadoaka project which BV is involved in. Field scientists Tom and Amelia gave presentation on BVs work on Finfish and Octopus monitoring and the ecological monitoring...
Madagascar conquering the world….almost!
The final of the Confederation of African Rugby’s Top 9 competition will be played in Paris at Stade Claude Luboz in the northern Paris suburb of Gennevillers on Saturday afternoon – an historic encounter. You might remember from a previous...
Better Late than Never – an Onsite Field Update
BV played Football against the village on Sunday. Men lost 2:1, Women lost 2:1. We are closing the gap. Victory is within our reach, so watch this space…again! Two bird experts from Bath University visited the site to catalogue the...
Organisations Unite
Several international organisations (United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), UN Foundation, International Coral Reef Action Network (ICRAN) and Conservation International (CI)) have joined forces with WWF to provide funding for the conservation of Mozambique’s unique marine habitat and wildlife in and...
Montreal climate talks hold key to saving the world’s coral reefs
Blue Ventures has been represented in Canada this week during the writing of the United Nations’ Youth Declaration on Climate Change. Governments from 190 countries are meeting in Montreal, Quebec, for the United Nations Climate Negotiations, which hold the key...
More on the Effects of Climate Change
A report released this week by WWF ahead of a key Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol in Montreal, Canada, discusses the threats posed by climate change to the world’s marine and freshwater fish species. Entitled ‘Are we...
A Press Release You Might Find Interesting:
Chancellor Gordon Brown Announces Winners of the Enterprising Young Brits competition Tom Savage and Alasdair Harris from London received Special Commendation in Social and Community category Twenty-four finalists from across the UK gave presentations to the judges in a ‘X...
What’s Going on on Site
Much to the surprise of both staff and volunteers the first rain of the season fell in Andavadoaka on Tuesday. This meant that all activities had to be cancelled and everyone settled in to a Blue Planet marathon. Andavadoaka’s locally...
Malnutrition in Madagascar
A study conducted by the Ministry of Health, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and a number of local NGO’s has reported that malnutrition levels in Madagascar have reached up to 74% in some parts of the remote southeastern region...
Week 1 on the Blue Ventures Site
The 1st week of our November expedition has drawn to a close with a football match Blue Ventures against the Vezo. Again the women put on a good performance and hopes were even raised with a half time score of...
Site News
Expedition 18 has arrived safely in Andavadoaka after a record fast 18 hour camion journey from Tulear. The two newest members of the BV team were also aboard the camion, Sage and Onion, Blue Ventures very own pair of turkeys...