Effective conservation depends on collaboration, patience, and trust, alongside ongoing education to show the tangible benefits for communities, government, and the private sector - as shown by our recent learning exchange in Indonesia.
Smiles all round! 💪
With thanks to @blueactionfund.org 🤝
🎣 What must change to secure a fair and sustainable future for fishing in Europe?
Each month, #MakeFishingFair will showcase "Voices from the Sea", where fishers share what it means to work at sea, and the realities of small-scale fishing in their country: bit.ly/4roHf9E
✊ This week, together with LIFE President (lifeplatform.eu/), we met with Commissioner Costas Kadis to push for concrete next steps to achieve fairness for small-scale fisheries in Europe.
Encouragingly, there was strong recognition from @ec.europa.eu that small-scale fisheries must be a priority 💪
2025 in the Barren Isles was a tale of community-led conservation progress 💪
With support from @blueactionfund.org, we're laying the groundwork for the establishment of the Barren Isles Marine Protected Area (MPA): bit.ly/4rdEK9T
After two decades of negotiations, the High Seas Treaty is now international law 💪
This landmark UN Agreement establishes a legal framework to protect marine biodiversity, ensure the sustainable use of ocean resources, and promote equality among nations: highseasalliance.org/2026/01/16/h...
Today, the resurgence of Tara Bandu represents more than a return to tradition.
It signals a quiet yet powerful reclaiming of identity and agency by the people of Timor-Leste, demonstrating that conservation and culture can reinforce each other:
blueventures.org/securing-rig...
“Whatever we catch today, we eat today. If we catch nothing, we don’t eat.”
Our work supports locally managed marine areas (LMMAs) that help communities set their own fishing rules, restore reefs and look for alternative ways to make a living.
More via @theguardian.com: bit.ly/4aVx5Zf
Our work is grounded in a simple but potent belief: that the power to restore our oceans lives in coastal communities.
Thank you to our colleagues, partners, funders and the coastal communities we serve for making 2025 yet another year of community-powered change: bit.ly/48VVYBg
This week, in collaboration with @ejfoundation.org Senegal, we supported a day of reflection with small-scale fishing community leaders.
This is grassroots leadership in action.
Communities aren't waiting for change; they're organising and advocating for the legal framework they need to thrive.
MacKenzie Scott's $62M gift to Blue Ventures marks a turning point for community-led ocean conservation.
With 100M people depending on small-scale fishing amid warming seas & declining catches, this funding empowers coastal communities to protect marine ecosystems & build resilience: bit.ly/3KQJQti
The International Board of the Fisheries Transparency Initiative (FiTI) welcomes three new members to the board, and welcomes back five re-elected members.
Learn more about the new members in our latest blog 👇
fiti.global/fiti-interna...
This year, we brought together 15 LMMA members from across Madagascar to explore:
🌿Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA)
💪 Cooperative development
🌐 MIHARI (Madagascar's LMMA network)
Learning how nature-based solutions strengthen coastal communities against climate change
🤝 @blueactionfund.org
Octopus fisheries are a vital source of food & income for many coastal communities; however, their short-lived cycle and limited data make traditional stock assessments challenging.
Our team have developed a new approach - the Short-Lived Assessment Model (SLAM): www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...
Coastal communities protecting our oceans need secure land rights. Without legal recognition of their homes, fishers face eviction for tourism, development and even conservation projects.
No secure tenure = no sustainable ocean management.
More via @dialogueearth.bsky.social: bit.ly/44k3h48
This #WorldFisheriesDay, we celebrate the fishing communities who are proving that ocean recovery is possible.
When fishers thrive, the ocean thrives. When the ocean thrives, coastal nations prosper.
More via: bit.ly/3XaK1SN
#BlueVentures #SmallScaleFisheries
One in 12 people globally depend on small-scale fishing for their livelihoods
This week at #COP30, our message is clear: protect the ocean by empowering those who've stewarded it for generations.
More via @theconversation.com: theconversation.com/governments-...
#BlueVentures #SmallScaleFishers
Small-scale fisheries are often overlooked, but they're critical to global food security.
📘 A new guidebook from @worldresources.bsky.social provides practical tools to help practitioners measure and reduce loss in small-scale aquatic food systems: bit.ly/47sTKsw
Without direct access to flexible funding, these communities & their livelihoods are at risk.
The Frontline Community Fund invests in local leadership with data, legal rights & financial inclusion - enabling communities to restore marine ecosystems AND build climate resilience: frontlinefund.org
"If we are serious about climate action, then putting long-term, flexible finance directly in the hands of local organisations and communities on the frontline must be the priority."
This week at the Africa Climate Summit, we've championed coastal communities in East Africa and Madagascar.
🚨 The UK Government appears to be reverting to "features-based approach" that leaves most #MPAs exposed to destructive bottom trawling and dredging, instead of securing whole-site bans that would protect fisheries for future generations.
📰 Via @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Gender equality & equity are crucial @blueactionfund.org projects, esp those co-funded by @greenclimate.fund.
Check out insightful video from our @blueventures.bsky.social showing first hand testimony from local community members in 🇲🇬: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfz1... @oceancecilia.bsky.social
🎣 Meet Rosine; a single mother whose story shows why financial inclusion matters for coastal communities.
In Madagascar, savings groups are helping people build resilient businesses that support sustainable fisheries management: bit.ly/4687bgH
Earlier this year we joined 150+ conservation leaders at the Mangrove Ecosystems Symposium, hosted by SOCODEVI.
We showcased our GEM Tool - empowering communities to map mangroves with smartphones (bit.ly/3IK1duq), discussed rights-based blue carbon approaches, and strengthened global partnerships.
📢 “Ghana's commitment to ban bottom trawling in coastal waters marks a historic moment for ocean justice and coastal communities across West Africa and beyond.”
Read our CEO Ebrima Saidy‘s full article via: for-the-ocean.org/ghana-bottom...
#BlueVentures #TransformBottomTrawling
📣 Good news from our team in Madagascar - green turtle nesting activity from community data collectors documents 41 turtle nests between January and May this year!
This data collection forms the cornerstone of community-led marine conservation efforts in the Barren Isles 💪
🤝 @blueactionfund.org
📢 BREAKING: Ghana's President signs new Fisheries Act!
The Inshore Exclusive Zone (IEZ) is to be extended from 6 to 12 nautical miles - a major win for artisanal fishers.
We’re proud to partner with Minister Hon. Emelia Arthur in supporting coastal communities: blueventures.org/ghanaiezexpa...
A historic victory for Ghana's coastal communities - Ghana's Parliament has passed the Fisheries and Aquaculture Bill 2025! 💪
The Bill extends the country's Inshore Exclusion Zone (#IEZ) from 6 to 12 nautical miles, prohibiting industrial fishing across territorial seas.
More via: bit.ly/3IBs9N1
Small-scale fishers in Timor-Leste are adapting to climate change and leading with solutions 💪
✅ 1,642 hectares of new marine protected areas
✅ 30,000 mangrove seedlings planted
✅ Women-led monitoring groups established
Community-led conservation works: bit.ly/4kV519F
#BlueVentures #TimorLeste
🚨 BREAKING NEWS: The Parliament of Ghana has unanimously approved the Fisheries & Aquaculture Bill, 2025!
The legislation upholds recent commitment from Ghana to extend the country’s Inshore Exclusive Zone (IEZ) from 6 to 12 nautical miles.
More on the story from Ghana Web here: bit.ly/3U7E3AN
📢 "This decision isn't just about today, but it's for the future, for our children."
Sr. Caetano da Cunha, Tara Bandu coordinator in Timor-Leste.
When coastal communities lead marine conservation, they create solutions that last generations: blueventures.org/shoreline-resilience-timor-leste/
