Blue Ventures is an award-winning marine conservation organisation, dedicated to working with local communities to conserve threatened marine environments.
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Blue Ventures Blue Ventures was highly commended for a record 5th time at the Virgin Responsible Tourism Awards last week. We would like to extend our congratulations to all the winners and especially the overall winner Whale Watch Kaikoura, New Zealand.
Blue Ventures A resolution was passed in the US House of Representatives on Wednesday condemning the widespread illegal logging taking place in Madagascars national park. We would like to ask all US-based member of this group to contact their representatives and ask them to support this resolution and increase public awareness of this threat to Madagascars prescious natural resources.
Source: news.mongabay.com
A House of Representatives resolution introduced by Earl Blumenauer (D-Oregon) condemns the illegal plundering of natural resources in Madagascar, reports the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). The resolution ...
Blue Ventures A good article from the guardian highlighting the impact of climate change upon the already arid South of Madagascar. In conditions like these, people move coastwards in an effort to make a living, putting a further impetus on the need to effectively manage the marine resources that they, and many more in the region, are utterly dependent on.
Ravaged by drought, Madagascar feels the full effect of climate change | World news | guardian.co.uk
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
A 10% increase in temperature and a 10% decrease in rainfall sees Indian Ocean island struggle to feed its children
by Núria Forns Willem, Jane, Roger and I have been in Tioman for 20 days now....
by Roger Vaughan I got here to Tioman Island, just off the east coast of peninsular Malaysia, abouta week ago. My routine goes like this: up at 7am, swim in the warm clear water, 8am breakfast in the restaurant next door to my room...
Blue Ventures Blue Ventures Malaysia volunteers spotted an enormous pod of pilot whales last week. The pod proceeded to play around the boat as divers moved to Chebe, giving an excellent display of size and graceful aptitude as they rode the bow-wave and flashed their white bellies. The team were extremely excited by the sighting, particularly as no pilot whales have been heard of as 'regulars' to Tioman waters.
Blue Ventures Don't miss your chance to see the long-awaited documentary by journalist Charles Clover 'The End of the Line' which is screening on More 4 tonight at 10pm.
Source: endoftheline.com
The End of the Line is a powerful film about one of the world's most disturbing problems - over-fishing. Advances in fishing technology mean whole species of wild fish are under threat and the most important stocks we eat are predicted to be in a state of collapse by 2050. ...
So Ariane and I have one day left here in Andavadoaka, I can’t really believe it. Time here is a bizarre phenomenon, it goes quickly but you feel like you have been here for ages! ...
Everything is going well with the dive surveys at our new site in Belo and on the islands so far. This week we had some great weather again, which allowed us to survey a further 3 sites around the islands of Nosy Be, Nosy Angoraoke and Nosy Tania...
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The international conservation and development community has signed a press release on the Illegal logging of rosewood and ebony in Madagascar. http://www.mwc-info.net/en/Services/Jour
Source: www.mwc-info.net
Madagascar Wildlife Conservation aims to give an overview about conservation and humanitarian work in Madagascar. Further, we aim tohighlight the problems of wildlife conservation described by a case study (Andreba, Madagascar).Interested? Join our work!
Blue Ventures Blue Ventures Malaysia recently played host to the Seamester crew on Pulau Tioman. Read about the experiences of the Seamester crew and the fabled BV Malaysia hospitality on the reefcheck website!
Source: reefcheck.org
Sea|mester delivers unique educational journeys where students spend their entire semester at sea, sailing between islands, countries and even continents. They have been Reef Check partners since 2005.
Blue Ventures Today is Pan-African Women's Day. Find out about the inspirational Women's Associations of Andavadoaka and Lamboara in the Blue Ventures report - available to download from our website.
Source: www.blueventures.org
Blue Ventures Last night Blue Ventures attended a Commonwealth Foundation discussion entitled “Desertification of the Oceans – How Can the Commonwealth Fight Back?” It was agreed that catch quotas and subsidising trawler fishing were not effective, only a multi-national approach to legislation enforcement is effective and if we all stopped eating fish today it would arrest the decline of the marine ecosystem – simple!
Blue Ventures An innovative shark monitoring program sponsored by Blue Ventures off the west coast of Madagascar. The shark finning industry has reached even to these remote communities in an ever greater demand on dwindling supplies.
Blue Ventures This week, Stephen Fry and Mark Carwadine visited Madagascar on their worldwide jounrney for Last Chance to See on BBC2. Visit the BBC website for the for an insight into Madagascars stunning terrestrial biodiversity and the threats facing it today.
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
A map tracking the Last Chance to See journeys in search of endangered animals.
