Marine and Terrestrial Conservation Programmes in the Seychelles

Facts and figures

12 Marine Park rangers have been trained in fish and Coral ID.
Contributed six years of unbroken coral monitoring and recruitment data as well as six 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 ten year data set on the reefs of North west Mahe an almost unprecedented length of time for a reef monitoring program
GVI Seychelles has surveyed 18 reefs every three months for the last six years as well as conducting plankton tows, turtle monitoring, whale shark observations, certation sightings and logging all Megafarna observed during dives
Approximately 800 volunteers have passed through GVI Seychelles over the last six 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”

GVI's Marine and Terrestrial Conservation Programmes in the Seychelles