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Blue Ventures’ Andavadoaka project aims to improve the quality of life of the local community by protecting environmental and cultural heritage and increasing local people’s income.
The waters of Andavadoaka host an incredible diversity of marine life. Biodiviersity studies in Andavadoaka have catalogued many hundreds of marine species, including a number of CITES-listed endangered species. These unique habitats, which represent some of the remotest and most well developed coral reef systems in the Indian Ocean, face threats from a number of local and global sources that include global warming of the oceans, increased fishing pressure and changing land-uses in the interior of Madagascar.
Research runs at the site year-round. This has facilitated the development of a number of individual research projects and studies, and will enable continuous monitoring studies to be undertaken. These ongoing research efforts are focused on providing high-quality data and recommendations that promote the sustainable use of marine resources upon which these communities depend.
Our goal is to help the local community with both advice and implementation of environmental management strategies, in order to help sustain the traditional artisanal fishing economy as well as minimize the environmental impacts of human activities on the region’s unique marine and coastal environments. In other parts of Madagascar, particularly further South, these activities have had devastating effects.
Through the implementation of a community-run Marine Protected Area (MPA), the project is working to develop management solutions to help sustain the traditional artisanal fishing economy as well as to minimize the environmental impacts of human activities on the region’s marine and coastal environments.
You can find out more about current research activities on site by downloading project research updates. Click on the link below to find out more:
Research Reports |
