2005 SEED Winner Blue Ventures receives international praise and is awarded the IUCN Young Conservationist Award 2010
Blue Ventures, one of the first SEED winners in 2005 for creating Madagascar’s first community-run marine protected area, continues to progress and has received universal endorsement
Through conservation of marine areas, Blue Ventures has been working closely with the villagers to improve their resilience and adaptability to climate change.
However their activities are reaching even further. In this area of rural Madagascar women have little access to contraceptive services and little awareness of the need for protection from STIs. Working with Marie Stopes International, Blue Ventures responded to the desire for better reproductive choices and piloted a powerful, cheap, grassroots solution - a local barefoot family planning clinic. View the full article here.
But their success does not stop here.
Additionally Blue Ventures’ Research Director Alasdair Harris has been selected as winner of the 2010 Young Conservationist Award, an award by the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas and the International Ranger Federation. The award aims to recognize and raise awareness of the outstanding contributions made by young conservationists to the management of protected areas and to the leadership they show. Alistair Harris will be presented at the Healthy Parks Healthy People Congress, Melbourne April 2010. View the full article here.
