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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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REMEMBERING ARTHUR C. CLARKE

Arthur C Clarke influenced generations of people all over the world with his sci-fi writings. Nirmal is one of them...and he has some fond memories and some tears....

[ROCHE CAIMAN 20/03/2008] One of my heroes Arthur. C. Clarke, world famous science and science-fiction writer, visionary and communication pioneer, died at his home in Sri Lanka on Wednesday this week. He was 90. An avid fan of Sci-Fi books and magazines I started reading Arthur. C. Clarke’s works in my early teens. His most famous novel, "2001: A Space Odyssey," established an entire new genre of stories.  I was therefore over the moon (excuse the pun) when I was offered the chance to meet him in Sri Lanka in the 1970’s.

 I was on my way back to University and had to transit in Colombo. A family friend put me in touch with Rodney Jonklass, a world leader in fish identification and marine aquarium development (and actor in the shark movie “Blue Water White Death” which was partially shot in Seychelles).

 Whilst Rodney was showing me some of the new equipment he had invented he casually mentioned that he was going over to see his old friend Arthur. C. Clarke. He asked me to come along. I spent some hours in the company of Arthur. C but unfortunately he was suffering from breathing problems and could not take up Rodney’s offer to go snorkeling with us.

 Although still writing Sci-Fi novels till his death, Arthur. C. Clarke was also fascinated by marine conservation, something few people outside Sri Lanka seem to know about him. Arthur. C had in fact moved to Sri Lanka because of his interest in diving.  Back in 1959, he formed the diving company Underwater Safari which pioneered underwater eco-tourism in Sri Lanka. Since 1984 he was confined to his wheelchair with Post-Polio Syndrome but still managed to go diving.


 Speaking at Arthur. C’s 90th birthday in December last year, the President of Sri Lanka asserted that Arthur. C had predicted the dangers of unregulated development and worked closely with the Sri Lankan government to formulate laws and policy for coastal zone management. He waged a long-standing personal crusade to save the coral reefs around Sri Lanka, under threat from coral mining and dynamiting.


 Arthur. C. Clarke used his outstanding communications skills and influence in support of a variety of conservation causes in Sri Lanka. One of his greatest achievements in conservation was to persuade the government to designate the Hikkaduwa marine reserve, the country’s first marine sanctuary.


For us in Seychelles his emphasis on the ocean is understandable. For the rest of the world, it should be easy to understand if one remembers one of Arthur. C. Clarke’s more famous maxims: "How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean." [ENDS]

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