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, March 3, 2010

GVI Divemaster Interns Graduate

Kayla, Gary, Adrian, Ross and Annika celebrate passing their PADI Instructor Development Course.

This week witnessed the completion of the GVI Divemaster Internship Programme. Six former volunteers have spent the last ten weeks training to be divemasters and working at the Underwater Centre in Beau Vallon bay. Five of the six then went on to undertake their PADI Instructor Development course, successfully graduating on Sunday February 28^th. Our congratulations go out to them and we wish them all the best in their future roles as dive instructors.

The sixth member of the group Sally Conyers, having completed her divemaster internship decided against doing the instructor course in favour of pursuing a path into marine conservation. She has been rewarded for her hard work with a staff position on the GVI Seychelles Expedition and we look forward to welcoming her to the team next phase.

“The divemaster internship programme was a fantastic experience, it improved my diving expertise and helped me gain employment with GVI Seychelles” – Sally Conyers

1 comments:

Sara Mayer said...: congrats to everyone! what great accomplishments - welcome to the team, sally!; March 11, 2010 at 11:32 PM

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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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