Blue Ventures
#MoveTheDate Solutions
Personal / Community: Community project
Nature sub-categories: Conservation, Wildlife, Ecosystem health
Description: BFI Award "Blue Ventures" 2011: Blue ventures projects are transformative approaches to marine conservation in places where the ocean is pivotal to culture, economy and biodiversity. They created the largest locally managed marine areas (LMMAs) in the Indian Ocean, community-led fisheries management, sustainable aquaculture businesses, and integrated community health services with marine conservatioin.
Website about this solution: https://blueventures.org/
Why I love this solution: Blue Ventures works to develop community owned marine conservation solutions through an ambitious portfolio encompassing marine and fisheries research, sustainable aquaculture, family planning and public health, environmental education, fisheries management and protected area development. Integrating such a broad range of initiatives and delivering them in a specific geographic area represents a novel approach to the development of sustainable and holistic community led marine and coastal conservation in tropical developing world countries.