Vacancies with Blue Ventures
Blue Ventures Conservation is a UK-registered non-profit organization, based in southern Madagascar, dedicated to facilitating marine conservation and research. Its team comprises international and local scientists, educators, coastal managers and volunteers, who work in close partnership with local communities and institutions to carry out a wide range of projects that encompass capacity building, environmental education, ecological and socio-economic research, and the establishment of community-run Marine Protected Areas.
Blue Ventures has recently won national and international recognition for its work. In 2005 Blue Ventures became the first European organisation to receive the SEED Award (IUCN, UNEP, UNDP) in recognition of promising new locally-driven partnerships for delivering sustainable development and livelihoods. In 2006, Skal, the world's largest organisation of travel and tourism professionals, named Blue Ventures winner of its International Ecotourism Award. In 2007 the village of Andavadoaka's partnership with Blue Ventures won the UNDP Equator Prize in recognition of outstanding community efforts for poverty reduction and biodiversity conservation.
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