WHO

Blue Ventures empowers tropical coastal communities to manage their own resources, developing rights-based fisheries management approaches aiming to sustain local fisheries and safeguard marine biodiversity. BV’s models, which include aquaculture, efforts to unlock and market the carbon sequestration value of marine vegetation (blue carbon), ecotourism, integrated conservation and health programming, rebuilding fisheries, and locally managed marine areas, share a common theme of inspiring local leadership in marine management by demonstrating that effective marine conservation is in everyone’s interest.

WHAT

We’ve worked with Blue Ventures on a range of research and science communication projects since 2011. To help BV build its research profile internationally, we’ve used complex statistics to analyse organisational datasets and have authored seven peer-reviewed papers which have received more than 20,000 views. We have several others in review.

We’ve also delivered numerous reports, toolkits, guides and visualisations to inform BV’s research policy and expansion strategy, and to help partners to replicate the organisation’s conservation and fisheries management successes in new geographies.