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Social innovators: Alasdair Harris

When Blue Ventures Executive Director Alasdair Harris saw the rapid decline of Madagascar's marine environment through over-fishing and climate change it became clear that his efforts had to focus on people as much as on saving endangered species. 

Blue Ventures works with local communities to sustain locally led marine conservation, working in places where the ocean is vital to local cultures and economies with the aim to protect marine biodiversity in ways that benefit coastal people. 

The need to build sustainable coastal communities is pressing because about 500 million people globally depend on small-scale fisheries for their livelihoods, says Harris, who describes himself as a "reluctant social entrepreneur".

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