Blue Ventures

Blue Ventures

Partner's Location: 
Western Indian Ocean
Type of partner: 
Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs)
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Blue Ventures
Blue Ventures develops transformative approaches for catalysing and sustaining locally led marine conservation. It works in places where the ocean is vital to local cultures and economies, and are committed to protecting marine biodiversity in ways that benefit coastal people. Blue Ventures started over a decade ago, surveying coral reefs in the Mozambique channel.

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Consortium for the Conservation of the Coastal and Marine Ecosystems in the Western Indian Ocean region (WIO-C)

Organization/Institution/Project linked to: 
Nairobi Convention

WIO-C is a consortium of international and regional Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in partnership with intergovernmental organizations that have presence and are active in regional marine and coastal ecosystem management in the WIO region. It was established during the impelementation of the project on ‘Addressing Land Based activities in the Western Indian Ocean (WIOLaB) to provide a framework for NGOs working in the WIO region to harmonize and advance efforts to protect, conserve, and manage the coastal and marine environment of the WIO region while working to alleviate poverty and attain sustainable livelihoods for the most vulnerable segments of its population. It also aims to support synergy in programmes of work on marine and coastal ecosystem management and promote knowledge and information sharing amongst stakeholders in the WIO region, as well as provide a mechanism for non-governmental entities to anchor activities in the Nairobi Convention and other intergovernmental processes, thus strengthening their implementation.

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Members: 
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), BirdLife International, World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), East Africa Wildlife Society (EAWLS), Coastal Oceans Research and Development in the Indian Ocean (CORDIO), Wetlands International, Blue Ventures, RARE, The Nature Conservancy (TNC), Flora & Fauna International (FFI), Conservation International (CI), Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association (WIOMSA)