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Thursday, 25 August 2005 14:24 |
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The IUCN Red List category of a number of
bird species occurring in Seychelles was recently revised.
In 2005, Seychelles Magpie-robin and
Seychelles White-eye were all downlisted from Critically Endangered to
Endangered. This is momentous news for conservation. It shows that conservation
of birds and wider biodiversity is working, in the context of a global backdrop
of widespread species declines and even extinctions. Stuart Butchart of the
BirdLife International office in Cambridge, UK, explains how
conservation status is worked out.
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Thursday, 25 August 2005 14:02 |
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Dr Alan E Burger of University of Victoria,
Canada, has
been working for Nature Seychelles,
and investigated why the Pisonia tree
kills birds. 
Pisonia tree fruiting © Alan Burger
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The Mapou tree of Seychelles,
known to science as Pisonia grandis, is
widespread across the tropical Indo-Pacific. It is found most often on small
islands that have seabird colonies, where it is often the dominant forest tree
and provides favoured nesting sites for terns and noddies. Its seeds, produced
in clusters of 50-200, exude a resin that makes them stick readily to feathers. |
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Thursday, 18 August 2005 11:01 |
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The Sheath-tailed bat Coleura seychellensis is one of only two mammals endemic to the Seychelles, this means that it cannot be found anywhere else in the world. Yet it is possibly the rarest bat in the world with only about 30-100 individuals left in Seychelles.
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Thursday, 18 August 2005 10:06 |
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 The Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC), headquartered in Seychelles,
has been reported as having one of the poorest environmental
performances of all the 19 Regional Fisheries Management Organizations
of the world. This was highlighted in a BirdLife International report
launched at the 26th Session of the FAO’s Committee on Fisheries being
held this week in Italy. The BirdLife review identifies the regional
fisheries organizations that are not preventing the slaughter of the
world’s albatrosses in longline fisheries.
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