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, January 16, 2013

16/01/13 First Impressions

It’s been 4 days in camp and I’m already having a great time!! The days are busy but full of fun activities!! The highlight so far is all of the different dives we’ve done…. Diving every day is really good fun! I’ve loved to see all of the different fish and coral in the different spots in the base, and although it’s quite difficult learning all of the different types of coral it is really interesting.

Life on base is friendly and everyone’s having a great time so the atmosphere here is always really good. We all help out doing things around camp so that brings us closer together as we’re working as a team to complete tasks which make it easier… So I am loving my time here and can’t wait to see what the weeks ahead bring!!