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”

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

22/05/11 Birthday's on Curieuse Island

Another week passed here on Curieuse was marked most importantly by three birthdays!!! A full moon 21^st for Bridget on the 17^th, and a chocolate feast for Sven’s 21^st and Calum’s 22^nd on the 18^th of May – HAPPY BIRTHDAY GUYS!! A warm up weekend kicked off with a Friday night party themed “Freaky Friday the 13^th”, cue lots of talc powder and black eye shadow...spooky spooky and lots of fun on the dance floor! A much more laid back weekend ensued, with a lazy trip to Praslin on Saturday and a slightly more energised cross-island trek to Badamier beach on Sunday.

Monday morning camp clean came to an abrupt stand –still when Dan started yelling “Fire!! Fire!!” We all gathered puzzled on the beach wondering what was going on until Nik, Lindsay and Bridget were called to rescue Steve and Cameron lying on the floor in a “smoke filled” kitchen holding a tiny note each......... Cameron’s - “Unconcious, breathing”, Steve’s – “Unconcious, non-breathing”. And indeed, our three newly qualified Emergency Responders saved both boys’ lives! Well done guys J

Monday evening our lovely instructor Jax returned! She only left for a week, to help out at sister site Cap Ternay, but we oh how we missed her J. We also said ‘bye to Tai as he returned to Cap T – we hope to see him back soon, his energy and morning pancakes were pretty damn good!

Coral monitoring continues uninterrupted, and our newcomers are powering through their coral workshops. Sven also made a welcome return to diving after recovering from an ear infection - Hurray! Finally, camp has had a re-vamp! New signs ensure everyone knows where they are, from Curieuse cafe (the kitchen) to the drop off (toilets) via the blow hole (shower)!