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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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Coral Aquaculture Facility!

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We have started work on the Assisted Recovery of Corals (ARC) facility to revolutionise our coral reef restoration process Learn more

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Implementing the SDGs

At Nature Seychelles we are committed to working with government, development partners and donors in implementing relevant actions, in particular, looking at certain goals where we can build on our existing strengths. Read more

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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SUPPORT IS NEEDED FOR PROPAGATING HERITAGE GARDENS

Lately Nature Seychelles' trail blazing in eco-conservation concerns and amalgamating New media technologies has attracted the attention of the Seychellois public interested in discovering what makes this NGO resonate with such vibrance amongst the youth.

Terence Vel engaging the media in spreading the Small Island Eco message

[ROCHE CAIMAN 5/09/08] Nature Seychelles' in conservation has continued to attract the attention of the Seychellois public interested in discovering what makes the environment tick.
Late last week, Nature Seychelles’ senior staff led by the CEO Nirmal Shah hosted the Secretariat of the National Assembly who were led by Mrs Marie Neolla Azemia in a guided tour of Nature Seychelles facilities. The tour covered the Sanctuary at Roche Caiman, the Centre for Environmental Education (CEE) and was wrapped up by a visit to the award winning Heritage Garden’s where the visitors sampled eye-catching plant species.
The National Assembly staffers not only mingled freely with the environmental defenders but also had an opportunity to view rich biodiversity.
“Our mantra is neatly exemplified in the words, ‘for people, for wildlife for Seychelles.’ This is because we believe that biodiversity and its surrounding heritage has its own intrinsic value as well as multiple sustainable values for human beings.” Shah revealed this in his welcoming speech to the over 15 National Assembly staffers.
Soon after the welcoming remarks, Nature Seychelles Education and Advocacy Coordinator Lyndy Bastienne took over and explained to the visitors of the importance of the Centre for Environmental Education and its role in empowering Seychellois. Ms Bastienne continued to explain of Nature Seychelles’ agenda, which is to make the CEE a world class environmental training facility for the Western Indian Ocean hemisphere. Site Support and Social Marketing Manager, Terence Vel later guided the visitors to the now famous boardwalk that snakes along the scenic settings that define the Sanctuary at Roche Caiman.
The Heritage Gardens which also serves as a central nursery and demonstration site to propagate rare and almost vanishing food, medicinal and other useful plants was a star feature of attraction for the National Assembly staffers, They became very excited in knowing more about the use and value of the various plant species planted there and also exchanged their own personal experiences with such plants.
The Heritage Garden at Roche Caiman was established with an intention of acting as a demonstration site and also as a research facility for students for the Heritage Garden Project which has been established in schools by the Wildlife Clubs of Seychelles with the assistance of Nature Seychelles, the Department of Natural Resources, and the Ministry of Education.
The Heritage Gardens Project has won many admirers. It was cited by the Commonwealth for “preserving and maintaining an important part of Seychelles culture and traditions that is in danger of being lost, the Project is of benefit to local communities. It adds value to the communities and their local resources by promoting understanding of the value of the plants that are around us, that fosters care of the local environment and a sustainable attitude to the use and continued existence of plant diversity.”
“I am surprised at how our Garden at Roche Caiman has become a popular place to visit by school and community groups. We are working at making it a fully fledged Garden site open to the public in the not so distant future.” said Lucina Denis, Nature Seychelles’s’ horticulturist.
“For us to continue this great work, the Heritage Gardens project needs funding” says Kerstin Henri, Nature  Seychelles’s Project Coordinator and Economist. “Corporate sponsors, Donors and others need to know we are trying to preserve and propagate a rich heritage of agro-biodiversity especially in an age where food security has become a huge problem” she continues.
 Nature Seychelles is calling on all interested parties to provide resources for this important project which is introducing young people to plants that were valued by their parents and is connecting several generations of Seychellois to become custodians of a rich heritage. Please contact us at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or on telephone number +248 601100.[ENDS]

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