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Blue Ventures’ New Marine Expedition
Blue Ventures is now recruiting for an exciting new volunteer expedition in Madagascar. In the summer of 2007 we’re launching two rapid reef exploration and assessment expeditions around the remote islands off Manahy, approximately 75km south of Morondava. The islands...
MPA Exploration
February and March marked the beginning of the MPA exploratory diving. Travelling via boat and motorized pirogue north to the islands of Nosy Ve, Nosy Mitata, Nosy Masai, and Andrombala. The first day diving was at Ampasy, a site that...
National Geographic marine reserves feature
National Geographic Society, supporter of Blue Ventures’ research into turtle fisheries in Madagascar, has recently put together an excellent feature on the global fisheries crisis, profiling the role of marine reserves in managing the collapse of fisheries around the world....
European Scientists’ Marine Reserves consensus
Join Blue Ventures Scientists and put your name to this consensus in support of Marine Protected Areas. In 2003, the World Parks Congress, the largest global assembly of protected area specialists and conservation managers recommended that marine “protected area networks...
Jewellery auction supporting Blue Ventures
A jewellery designer called Shirley Boyt has created a charm bracelet inspired by the Blue Planet TV series. Shirley has kindly offered to donate 25% of all sales to Blue Ventures to support the marine conservation work we do in...
A new Arrival.
Arriving in Anadavadoaka is not something for which you can really prepare. Having travelled for nearly 4 days from home in London expectations are pretty high, but safe to say it was definitely worth it! On arrival everyone seemed in...
Corals, divemasters and free divers
I arose at 1:30 am in Toliara to meet the Copefrito fish collection truck for the visit with Blue Ventures. Sixty hours, two trucks, one boat full of octopus and one crowded zebu cart later, I walked into Andavadoaka. I...
Get the latest conservation and science news from Blue Ventures
Blue Ventures’ latest Scientific Research Update is now available online. In this edition, learn how marine protected areas may hold the key to keeping global fishery industries healthy and productive. Also in this issue, read about Blue Ventures’ new whale...
No time to write
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...
Round trip of local villages
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...
Andavadoaka’s first local Dive Master
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...
BV’s Social Enterprise
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...
The Rainy season…
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...
Duck rediscovered
A species of duck previously thought to be extinct has been resighted on Madagascar. The Madagascar pochard, Aythya innotata, had not been sighted since 1991 despite constant surveys of marshy lakes with lots of reeds and emergent vegetation, believed to...
Time to say ‘Veloma’…
I am back in Andavadoaka after traveling around Madagascar for 2 weeks over my Christmas break. Alan and I had a great time visiting a few national parks, finally getting a chance to see the mountains, rainforest, lemurs, tree frogs...