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, July 25, 2011

24/07/11 Curieuse Week 3

As week three draws to an end, everyone is busy with their daily duties, completing their Coral Reef Research speciality dives and getting used to the rain, which has played a big part in our lives for the last week.

The rain has been causing problems for hut two as a tree, which fell on the roof before we arrived, caused some rather extensive leakage.

Apart from this, everyone’s still having a great time on the island and can’t believe that some of us only have 2 weeks left! Throughout the week we’ve had to get involved with various EFR (Emergency First Response) scenarios which, to be honest, started quite poorly as April, our science coordinator, pretented to choke during lunch and only 3 people decided to help her. We’ve gotten much better though and there was some first class emergency responding going down on Wednesday morning as we attended to another scenario...Stina drowning whislt Georgie lay unconscious at the bottom of the tree house…I think they would have survived, we were pretty awesome.

Another week on paradise over and everyone is looking forward to the Friday night (possibly barbequeless) BBQ and fancy dress party.