Marine and Terrestrial Conservation Programmes in the Seychelles

Facts and figures

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”

Monday, January 17, 2011

17/01/11 Land Ladies- Week One

Welcome to the TERRESTRIAL BLOG – Week One.

Bonding with new buddies-several ‘hard’ facts already noted!

Living an Island dream - content, I’d say so!

Odour de Mangroves – I swear it’s not the person next to you?!

Getting up early to do chores – is it really possible to have a ‘chore’ here?

Odour de dinner - everyone succumbs, not surprising after all the hard work.

Navigating our terrestrial walks like graceful gazelles – actually the graceful part needs some work!

Extraordinarily enjoyable existence

On day two we had the pleasure of meeting a turtle attempting to nest and on her way back to the ocean we got her measurements. I didn’t scare her… honest! The in-water picture is also a fantastic example from our snorkel surveys!

We’ve started our research, in all areas…marines yet to start I hear. Competititive? Maybe just a wee bit. Rest assured it’s all friendly!