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”

Friday, March 1, 2013

01/03/13 Final Preparations by Denise Renninger

This week everyone had to prepare for the Cap T Challenge on Thursday. We all were really excited when the teams finally were announced. Then every team was busy finding a name, song and making a flag.

The teams are:

Green team – Galaxian parrotfish of doom: Jordan, James M, Victoria, Denise

Blue team – One shot: Maja, Eden, Lee B, Janis, George

Red team – Red hot devil rays: Charlotte, Jess, Lauren, Savi, Hunter

Yellow team – Lemon sharks: Sam, James C, Fabienne, Rolph

Black team – Black marlins: Lee C, Clare, Kais, Joe, Laetitia

Purple team – Purple puffers: Melanie, Mary, Joe, Billy

Billy even wrote a song for the challenge and is making a video. We can’t wait to see the outcome. The target to raise 1200 pounds was hit this Monday, which is great! Thanks to everyone at this point who supported us and donated. If you want to help us raise even more for the children, you can still donate here: http://www.justgiving.com/capTcharitychallenge.

Further the new volunteers who are doing fish started with their surveys this week and doing very well on that. The “old” fish volunteers had some optional coral workshops and the coral guys started learning about the fish.

And Eden, Lauren and James finally are back in the water after a long time of not diving.