Category: International
In addition to our field programmes in Madagascar and Belize, we regularly share our learning at international conferences and we’re supporting various partners to adopt our conservation models in other tropical developing coastal regions.
El Squid Tango
by Núria Forns Willem, Jane, Roger and I have been in Tioman for 20 days now. As we’ve been regularly doing since we got here, this morning we got on the bum boat and headed out for a couple of...
Notes from the Island
by Roger Vaughan I got here to Tioman Island, just off the east coast of peninsular Malaysia, about a week ago. My routine goes like this: up at 7am, swim in the warm clear water, 8am breakfast in the restaurant next...
Do you wear shorts on your head?
By Tomas Essl. After the torture of the jungle trek at Juara first of all the entire team had to relax again. For that Friday a BBQ and a hat party were scheduled.
Welcome to the Tioman jungle!
By Sabine Our 3rd week of the expedition was very exciting and we got to explore a bit more of Tioman island
Underwater greetings
By Stefanie Menashe. The first evening we sat around in the restaurant hoping for the best; firstly that the food was edible and secondly that the group would be ok. We soon found out how lucky we were; the food...
Diving in the dark
By Kate Rowbury After a rather long overnight trip from Kuala Lumpur to Mersing, involving an entirely unsuccessful attempt at getting some sleep on the beach I made it onto the ferry across to Tioman and arrived on the island...
Tioman redundancy retreat
By Jamie Hunt Having been made redundant after 12 years working for a certain UK bank, I was determined to have an experience with my enforced time off that would allow me to clear my head and move on into...
Selamat petang!
By Elise Schultheis I can’t believe it’s already my last day on the island! Four weeks on Tioman have gone by so fast! There’s no way I’ll be able to sum up all of the unforgettable adventures I’ve had in...
Blue Ventures Malaysia reef clean up program
Blue Ventures Malaysia reef clean up program mentioned on greenfin marine park website
Malaysia research blog April-May 2009
Phew, expedition number one in the can, done, completed. It’s been a tough few weeks and jam packed with activities, research and outreach programs but it has flown by. It seems just yesterday that 8 sweating, pale but smiling volunteers...
Fish, football and floundering.
By Liz Griffiths Our fourth week started with proper science training dives. Learning how to identify the different types of corals was one thing; next we had to learn how to collect the data from the seabed.
Fiji scholars blog: Saras Sharmas first days with Blue Ventures
Blue Ventures are operating a scholarship programme to run in tandem with our Fiji expeditions. Here is the account of the first few days on site by Saras Sharma, a junior fisheries officer at the Fijiian department of fisheries and...
Helen’s first few months in Fiji
Helen McGrath, dive instructor out on Leleuvia gives her account of the first few months of the our Fiji expeditions.
Blue Ventures Malaysia take part in reef clean up
This weekend the Blue Ventures Malaysia (BVM) team, along with 4 university students from Kuala Lumpur, have been taking part in a reef clean-up event organised by the Department of Marine Park Malaysia (DMPM). One of the main aims of...
When you’re bringing your work to the dinner table…
Island life changes you. Slowly and gradually Swiss cottages and the expedition becomes your normal life.