• $130,000Active Strategy

  2012 (Inactive Grant)

  Conservation & Sustainable Development

  LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM — Blue Ventures is dedicated to tropical marine conservation, education, and sustainable development of coastal communities. For over a decade Blue Ventures has been involved in the creation of locally-managed marine areas in Madagascar. Blue Ventures will coordinate and hold an official side event to the International Union for the Conservation of Natures World Conservation Congress in Jeju, South Korea in September 2012. The workshop will bring together representatives from community-based marine conservation networks in the South Pacific, Western Indian Ocean, and the Caribbean to facilitate a meaningful exchange of ideas on best practices, lessons learned, common challenges, and new approaches to community-based/locally-managed marine conservation. The workshop will develop the foundation for a global network connecting regional LMMA networks.

• $40,800Active Strategy

  2010 (Inactive Grant)

  Conservation & Sustainable Development

  LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM — To improve girls' education in Velondriake Locally Managed Marine Area in southwest Madagascar (over two years).

• $275,000Active Strategy

  2010 (Duration 3 years)

  Conservation & Sustainable Development

  LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM — To link the conservation of Madagascar's mangrove habitats to international carbon markets (over three years).

• $300,000Active Strategy

  2010 (Duration 3 years, 6 months)

  Conservation & Sustainable Development

  LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM — To develop an integrated population, health, and environment project in Madagascar (over 42 months).

• $670,000Active Strategy

  2010 (Duration 3 years)

  Conservation & Sustainable Development

  LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM — To build the foundation of a national locally-managed marine area network to safeguard Madagascar's coastal fisheries and biodiversity (over three years).

The MacArthur Foundation awarded Blue Ventures Conservation $1,415,800 between 2010 and 2013.