A group of north Mahé Wildlife Clubs of Seychelles banded together recently to visit the English River Home for the Elderly as the Heritage Gardens project took its first step outside Seychelles’ schools.

While the almost daily announcements of new tourism investments in Seychelles might have the country’s bank managers rubbing their hands in delight the same is unlikely to be true for the country’s environmentalists.

“I’d love to save the environment, just not right now. Don’t get me wrong, I agree with conservation and looking after the birds and animals and whatever, but I’m a busy guy and there’s never enough time (or money) to do everything, right?”

“He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.”
Immanuel Kant

Enlightenment philosopher, Immanuel Kant, was castigating those who mistreat individual animals. What would he have thought of people who watch entire species wiped out?