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  • Research: Roaming seabirds need ocean-wide protection, research shows

    Unlike other oceans, which are known to have specific “hotspots” where predators, including seabirds, gather in large numbers to feed, the Indian Ocean lacks such concentrated feeding areas, a recent paper has revealed. This lack of hotspots is particularly concerning given the various threats seabirds face due to human activities.[…]

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  • Saya de Malha leaves for its third dFAD clean-up expedition

    (Seychelles Nation) The Saya de Malha vessel of the Seychelles Coast Guard (SCG) left Port Victoria yesterday afternoon for its third drifting Fishing Aggregate Devices (dFAD) expedition clean-up exercise in Seychelles territorial waters and shores of the outer islands. As customary since the first expedition in October 2022, students from Seychelles[…]

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Seychelles Wildlife

Natural environment of the Seychelles

Seychelles is a unique environment, which sustains a very special biodiversity. It is special for a number of different reasons. These are the oldest oceanic islands to be found anywhere...

Bird Watching

Seychelles is a paradise for birdwatchers, you can easily see the unique land birds, the important sea bird colonies, and the host of migrants and vagrants. Some sea bird...

Seychelles Black Parrot

Black Parrot or Kato Nwar in Creolee is brown-grey in colour, not truly black. Many bird experts treat it as a local form of a species found in Madagascar and...

Fairy Tern

The Fairy (or white) Tern is a beautiful bird seen on all islands in Seychelles, even islands like Mahe where they are killed by introduced rats, cats and Barn Owls....

Introduced Land Birds

A little over two hundred years ago, there were no humans living permanently in Seychelles. When settlement occurred, people naturally brought with them the animals and plants they needed to...

Native Birds

Although over 190 different species of bird have been seen on or around the central islands of Seychelles (and the number is increasing all the time), many of these are...

Migrant Shore Birds

Shallow seas and estuaries are very rich in invertebrate life. Many birds feed on the worms, crabs and shellfish in these habitats; often, they have long bills for probing sand...

Seychelles Magpie Robin

The most endangered of the endemic birds, Seychelles Magpie Robin or Pi Santez in Creole, came close to extinction in the late twentieth century; in 1970 there were only about...

Seychelles Blue Pigeon

The Seychelles Blue Pigeon or Pizon Olande in Creole, spends much of its life in the canopy of trees and eats the fruits of figs, bwa dir, ylang ylang and...

Seychelles White-eye

The Seychelles White-eye or Zwazo Linet in Creole, is rare and endemic. They may sometimes be seen in gardens and forest over 300m at La Misere, Cascade and a few...

Seychelles Black Paradise Flycatcher

The Seychelles Black Paradise Flycatcher or the Vev in Creole is endemic to Seychelles, you cannot find this bird anywhere else on earth. Although it was once widespread on...

Seychelles Sunbird

The tiny sunbird or Kolibri in Creole, is one of the few endemic species that has thrived since humans arrived in the Seychelles.

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Achievements

  • Stopped near extinctions of birds +

    Down-listing of the critically endangered Seychelles warbler from Critically Endangered to Near Threatened. Other Seychelles birds have also been saved including the Seychelles Magpie Robin, Seychelles Fody, and the Seychelles
  • Restored whole island ecosystems +

    We transformed Cousin Island from a coconut plantation to a thriving vibrant and diverse island ecosystem. Success achieved on Cousin was replicated on other islands with similar conservation activities.
  • Championed climate change solutions +

    Nature Seychelles has risen to the climate change challenge in our region in creative ways to adapt to the inevitable changing of times.
  • Education and Awareness +

    We have been at the forefront of environmental education, particularly with schools and Wildlife clubs
  • Sustainable Tourism +

    We manage the award-winning eco-tourism programme on Cousin Island started in 1970
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Seychelles aims to prevent E. Coli outbreak

People urged to take precautionary measure, By Jemina Robert TODAY 8 June 2011

The Public Health Commissioner said Seychelles is on full alert as the world's largest and most deadliest E. Coli outbreak that has already killed 14 people in Germany and left 300 seriously ill, spreads to other northern European countries. It is believed the infection has spread as far as the United States of America.

German ministers and disease experts investigating the E-coli outbreak now say that contaminated cucumbers from Spain were not responsible for the outbreak as orginally believed, but German- produced beansprouts. German Agriculture spokesperson Gert Hahne said although tests were not conclusive, all indicators point to them. He warned people to stop eating sprouts, often used in mixed salads in northern Germany.

With the situation expected to worsen in the coming weeks, Dr Jude Gedeon, has urged people to take extra care when storing food for consumption, as it was widely believed that the outbreak of E.Coli had been triggered off by poor storage conditions of vegetables when being transported.

E.Coli is normally present inside the human intestines, but the virulent strain causing the outbreak in Europe is said to be very dangerous and even resistant to medicines. People are falling sick all of a sudden and in the acute stage suffer from internal bleeding. E.Coli affects the blood, kidneys and, in severe cases, the nervous system and can be particularly serious for children and the elderly. Among the first known symptoms are acute abdominal cramps, diarhorea, fever and blood which can be spotted in urine and faeces. Most infected people in Europe are dying from kidney failures.

Despite the strain of E.Coli starting in Germany, Dr Gedeon said it could spread to Seychelles through infected people.

“It all depends on the kind of hygiene one has. It can easily spread from faeces to water and if you wash the vegetables in the water, then they get contaminated,” Dr Gedeon said.  

“We are advising people to wash vegetable that they eat raw properly with treated water and if not, then with boiled water. But most importantly to wash their hands properly and often when coming out from using the toilet,” Dr Gedeon said.

He also highlighted the importance of respecting the norms in food transportation and storage such as maintaining the proper temperature at all times and to avoid mixing all types of foods together.

For example, he advised against storing ice cream products with meat products in the same chiller or fresh fish with vegetables.

In the meantime, some of the biggest importers of fruits and vegetables, such as the Seychelles Trading Company (STC) have confirmed they are not importing any of these products from Europe. STC said its main import markets for fruits and vegetables were New Zealand, Australia and South Africa. Other importers said they have stopped importing certain varieties of vegetables. Russia and other Asian countries have issued a ban on vegetables imports from Germany.

Photo: A false-color electron microscope image shows a type of deadly bacteria known as enterohemorrhagic E. coli (red) that’s similar to the strain causing a large outbreak in Germany.
Credit: Manfred Rohde, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung (Helmholtz Center for Infection Research) Via Science News 

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