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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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TURTLE CONSERVATION GOES HI-TECH

Turtle Tracking using telemetry is now accessible to the youth in SeychellesFew would have thought that technology is yet to catch up with the marine conservation. But Alas! Nature Seychelles is spearheading Seychellois youth in adopting emerging technologies for conservation....Read More

[ROCHE CAIMAN 8TH/09/08] In the beginning it just appeared to be any other press event with little pomposity and lacking the usual news angle. In other words it was a common everyday occurrence, whereby a blue chip multinational finance company donated some computers to an established environmental agency.
This was how it seemed to be but as the proceedings progressed, the reality began to sink and the magnitude of the event began to take a new shape and angle altogether.
It was no longer an obscure news item but real time news.
Financial giant Barclays Bank was donating some two high-end computers to the Wildlife Clubs of Seychelles (WCS). The donation of these two computers also coincided with the official launching of a ground breaking research ideal whose ramifications will be felt all across the globe. In simple parlance the event runs under the banner of ‘Turtle Monitoring Project’.
Three conservation entities namely, Nature Seychelles, Wildlife Clubs of Seychelles and the Marine Conservation Society of Seychelles (MCSS) are pioneering a massive Turtle Monitoring project. A press communiqué issued by Wildlife Clubs of Seychelles which has a youth membership of over 700 members notes:
“The objective of the project is to get club members involved in tracking sea turtles using the internet, collecting data to understand turtle movements, evaluate their life history, behavior and eventually their migratory patterns.”
According to Nirmal Shah, CEO of Nature Seychelles and one of the key lead agencies in the "Turtle Monitoring Project": "The two main intentions of the project are to inculcate into our young students the desire to learn about the importance of conserving turtles (which are currently listed by IUCN as endangered) and also develop useful skills in deploying technology in conservation and the understanding of biodiversity."
It was this realization that gave the entire event a new spin. Seychellois youth are now able to track turtles from the internet. The overtly extensive voyage of turtles across the world’s oceans is now accessible to the youth through satellite transmission technology or to sum it all in one word, telemetry.
This monitoring has been made possible with scientists attaching transmitters on the turtle shells (referred to as carapace) when the turtles are nesting. Through this transmitters, the turtles sends signals each time they surface to several satellite processing centers. This data is in turn interpreted using latitude and longitude coordinates which help in mapping their locations and movements at the same time.
Armed with the migration maps, pertinent day-to-day issues affecting turtles such as internesting, foraging patterns, nesting beaches and general exodus can be reviewed quite easily.
It is this technological wizardry with a noble aim to conserve turtles that Barclays’ donation is imparting on the youth. This is the reason the press briefing acquired a new dimension. As the briefing came to an end and visitors exchanged pleasantries, the evergreen Guyanese proverb “Turtle can't walk if he nah push he head outa he shell” Which means  “In life you cannot make any kind of progress if you do not make the first steps,” filtered through. The first steps have already been made, and the Seychelles youth are leading the pack of many other Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in turtle conservation and its integration with New Media technologies.
"The emerging generation of youngsters are technologically savvy, and for us in the conservation field to be on top of our game we need them as they are the future. Small Islands States like Seychelles must integrate and merge the youth with New Media Technologies if their fragile ecosystems are to survive." Shah asserts.[ENDS]

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