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”

Thursday, March 29, 2012

29/03/12 The Cap Ternay Charitable Trust Challenge

Thank you to the volunteers and sponsors who made Cap Ternay Challenge & Cheers for Charity a huge success! 12 hours of challenges (including everything from hiking to the highest point on Mahe to making a dance video at the orphanage we are raising money for) started at Baie Ternay Marine Park and ending up on a sunset cruise in Saint Anne’s Marine Park.

The all day, all night charity event raised a generous £936 so far through event tickets and online donations. The website will still be up for another week: www.justgiving.com/capternaychallenge

Shoe stealing, a rigid flag, strategic slow start, illegal hitchhiking, a nun, Rodney, fabric toilet seat cover, Barbara Streisand, Pirates Arms, ROPE SWING! and a day-with-Joe raffle, were all part of the ridiculousness and fun. Check out the photos to see for yourself.

THANK YOU to the volunteers and sponsors who made our March 2012 fundraising event a so amazing!