Marine and Terrestrial Conservation Programmes in the Seychelles

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GVI Seychelles has surveyed 18 reefs every three months for the last eight years as well as conducting plankton tows, turtle monitoring, whale shark observations, certation sightings and logging all Megafarna observed during dives
12 Marine Park rangers have been trained in fish and Coral ID.
Contributed eight years of unbroken coral monitoring and recruitment data as well as eight years of fish biodiversity data to the Seychelles National Parks Authority. Adding this to the existing previous four years of data we now have an unbroken twelve year data set on the reefs of North west Mahe an almost unprecedented length of time for a reef monitoring program
Approximately 1000 volunteers have passed through GVI Seychelles over the last eight years. All have been trained in coral reef monitoring techniques either learning to identify 47 genre of coral species or 140 fish species
The data collected by GVI Seychelles is used by Government organisations and is the main contribution from the region to the biannual publication of “The Sate of Coral Reefs of The Indian Ocean”

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Community Coverage

To kick off the GVI Seychelles blog, we’d like to use go back a month or two to draw your attention to some recent coverage we had in the Seychelles’ Nation newspaper. As our community programme goes from strength to strength, the end of the first phase of 2008 saw Gen and the gang feature in the local newspaper after teaching the kids another phase of all things marine and environmental... This following hot on the heels of the success of the Youth Dive Club that saw 11 local youths signed off as PADI Junior Open Water divers, hopefully their first step on the road towards continuing to conserve the reefs and marine life of the Seychelles.

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"I’ve had an amazing experience on the Seychelles expedition. As soon as you arrive and settle in it feels like you’ve taken ownership of your own piece of paradise. To be part of a community working toward a common goal feels very special. The sense of achievement I felt when I completed my training was wonderful and to get out there in the ocean and start doing your own surveys, knowing that you are contributing towards a bigger scientific goal is very fulfilling personally. Although the days are long and the work hard, it is never a struggle to get up in the morning and dive into the rolling azure ocean for a great day’s work. Fantastic! Carl Brown, October expedition.

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