{"id":3600,"date":"2013-02-01T16:08:29","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T16:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bvblog.wpengine.com\/?p=3600"},"modified":"2014-04-25T13:45:43","modified_gmt":"2014-04-25T12:45:43","slug":"have-you-ever-encountered-a-live-sea-cucumber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.blueventures.org\/en\/have-you-ever-encountered-a-live-sea-cucumber\/","title":{"rendered":"Have you ever encountered a live sea cucumber?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Taylor Mayol, Communications and Programme Development Officer, Madagascar<\/p>\n<p>I hadn\u2019t either until just a few months ago. I knew I was in for a wild ride during my fellowship after I dove into a crystal clear turquoise bay in southwest Madagascar to check out Blue Ventures\u2019 (BV) community-led aquaculture project, and resurfaced with a grey, cucumber-like sea creature in hand. Sea cucumbers are delicate bottom-feeders that feel a bit like wet paper mache and are an expensive delicacy in many Asian countries. BV works with fishermen who are traditionally dependent on the sea for their cultural identity and subsistence, to run sea cucumber farms, which provide a lucrative source of income and offer an alternative to relying on dwindling marine resources. The strangeness of the concept of farming sea cucumbers is pretty much a microcosm of my experience so far in this fairly schizophrenic and unique country, which is quite far from \u201cAfrica\u201d in both the literal and figurative sense.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3602\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.blueventures.org\/media\/2013\/02\/\u00a9_BV_Garth_Cripps_sea-cucs_small.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3602\" class=\"wp-image-3602 lazyload\" alt=\"\u00a9_BV_Garth_Cripps_sea cucs_small\" data-src=\"http:\/\/blog.blueventures.org\/media\/2013\/02\/\u00a9_BV_Garth_Cripps_sea-cucs_small.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.blueventures.org\/media\/2013\/02\/\u00a9_BV_Garth_Cripps_sea-cucs_small.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.blueventures.org\/media\/2013\/02\/\u00a9_BV_Garth_Cripps_sea-cucs_small-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blog.blueventures.org\/media\/2013\/02\/\u00a9_BV_Garth_Cripps_sea-cucs_small-97x65.jpg 97w, https:\/\/blog.blueventures.org\/media\/2013\/02\/\u00a9_BV_Garth_Cripps_sea-cucs_small-535x357.jpg 535w, https:\/\/blog.blueventures.org\/media\/2013\/02\/\u00a9_BV_Garth_Cripps_sea-cucs_small-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.blueventures.org\/media\/2013\/02\/\u00a9_BV_Garth_Cripps_sea-cucs_small-724x483.jpg 724w, https:\/\/blog.blueventures.org\/media\/2013\/02\/\u00a9_BV_Garth_Cripps_sea-cucs_small-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.blueventures.org\/media\/2013\/02\/\u00a9_BV_Garth_Cripps_sea-cucs_small-375x250.jpg 375w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/683;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3602\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farming seacucumbers? A strange idea for me at first!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As the communications and program development officer for Blue Ventures, a marine conservation NGO with a holistic \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/blueventures.org\/conservation\/community-health.html\">Population, Health, and Environmen<\/a>t\u201d approach, I must intimately know our entire project portfolio: from these <a href=\"http:\/\/blueventures.org\/conservation\/aquaculture.html\">aquaculture<\/a> farms to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unicef.org\/\">UNICEF<\/a>-funded youth education programs to reproductive health care to coral reef research, to mention just a few. At BV we believe that conservation can\u2019t take place in a bubble and that the health of an environment is intrinsically linked to the well-being of its community, particularly here in southwest Madagascar, home to some of the country\u2019s most isolated people.<\/p>\n<p>With admittedly zero background in conservation, I was expecting to be surprised and challenged by my post, but I had no idea how much I would actually need to absorb right off the bat. It was pretty much a sink or swim kind of situation: to truly succeed at my job I head to jump headfirst into BV and learn all the ins and outs of its work over the last decade. Now, I can spout facts I never imagined I would know, like life cycles of octopus, the importance of tidal fluctuations, the carbon sequestering capacity of mangroves.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3603\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.blueventures.org\/media\/2013\/02\/Taylor-Blog-Communications-Training.Sophie.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3603\" class=\"wp-image-3603 lazyload\" alt=\"Taylor Blog - Communications Training.Sophie\" data-src=\"http:\/\/blog.blueventures.org\/media\/2013\/02\/Taylor-Blog-Communications-Training.Sophie.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.blueventures.org\/media\/2013\/02\/Taylor-Blog-Communications-Training.Sophie.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.blueventures.org\/media\/2013\/02\/Taylor-Blog-Communications-Training.Sophie-87x65.jpg 87w, https:\/\/blog.blueventures.org\/media\/2013\/02\/Taylor-Blog-Communications-Training.Sophie-476x357.jpg 476w, https:\/\/blog.blueventures.org\/media\/2013\/02\/Taylor-Blog-Communications-Training.Sophie-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.blueventures.org\/media\/2013\/02\/Taylor-Blog-Communications-Training.Sophie-644x483.jpg 644w, https:\/\/blog.blueventures.org\/media\/2013\/02\/Taylor-Blog-Communications-Training.Sophie-300x225.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/768;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3603\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taylor training some of the BV staff in communications<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A perk of my job has definitely been the travel, undoubtedly extra special here in the world\u2019s so-called \u201cEighth Continent.\u201d I have traversed many of Madagascar\u2019s ecosystems, from the chilly plateau in Antananarivo, southward through rolling red hills and endless green rice paddies to dry savannah and my coastal home in Toliara. I have ventured up the sandy and bumpy coastline through the incredible dry Spiny Forest and recently spent half of October trekking around and camping near Belo sur Mer, where we work with communities to conserve mangroves and increase fish and crab catches, about 30 hours from Toliara by taxi brousse (packed in sardine-style, of course).<\/p>\n<p>My most notable memories include hiking in the massive, rocky Isalo National Park and jumping into magically appearing natural green pools of water to cool off; seeing mouse lemurs at night; traveling by dug-out canoe in the open ocean and getting soaked to the bone; and fighting off Madagascar hissing cockroaches. Professionally, I\u2019ve been given incredible responsibility and independence, and I\u2019ve learned how to write grants and scientific research reports, am working towards publishing my first journal article, and even met with National Geographic. Along the way, I\u2019ve picked up a (small) bit of Malagasy from my coworkers and am (very) slowly but (somewhat) surely working on my French.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3604\" style=\"width: 4922px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.blueventures.org\/media\/2013\/02\/taylor-blog-DSC01363.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3604\" class=\"wp-image-3604 lazyload\" alt=\"SONY DSC\" data-src=\"http:\/\/blog.blueventures.org\/media\/2013\/02\/taylor-blog-DSC01363.jpg\" width=\"4912\" height=\"3264\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.blueventures.org\/media\/2013\/02\/taylor-blog-DSC01363.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/blog.blueventures.org\/media\/2013\/02\/taylor-blog-DSC01363-2000x1329.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/blog.blueventures.org\/media\/2013\/02\/taylor-blog-DSC01363-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blog.blueventures.org\/media\/2013\/02\/taylor-blog-DSC01363-98x65.jpg 98w, https:\/\/blog.blueventures.org\/media\/2013\/02\/taylor-blog-DSC01363-537x357.jpg 537w, https:\/\/blog.blueventures.org\/media\/2013\/02\/taylor-blog-DSC01363-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.blueventures.org\/media\/2013\/02\/taylor-blog-DSC01363-727x483.jpg 727w, https:\/\/blog.blueventures.org\/media\/2013\/02\/taylor-blog-DSC01363-1300x864.jpg 1300w, https:\/\/blog.blueventures.org\/media\/2013\/02\/taylor-blog-DSC01363-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.blueventures.org\/media\/2013\/02\/taylor-blog-DSC01363-1200x797.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/blog.blueventures.org\/media\/2013\/02\/taylor-blog-DSC01363-375x250.jpg 375w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 4912px) 100vw, 4912px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 4912px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 4912\/3264;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3604\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taylor with Kate England and Sylvia Paulot from the Blue Forests team<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The last four months has given me new friendships, deeper insight into my own life, and a new appreciation for conservation and its ties to food security and poverty alleviation. The absolute highlight, however, has been working for a mission-driven organization that operates at the junction of academia and reality, and is actually implementing development theory in a setting with tremendous poverty and political instability. Although I have been out of my university classroom for over two years now, everyday at work feels like I am learning again, translating development lectures into meaningful and tangible outcomes, and perhaps even doing something a bit strange, in the best way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Taylor Mayol, Communications and Programme Development Officer, Madagascar I hadn\u2019t either until just a few months ago. 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