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”

Saturday, April 13, 2013

13/04/13 Working on the Mural

So this has been a pretty hectic week as we say a super sad goodbye to 8 amazing volunteers who are all off on their next adventures. Some are heading out to complete their Divemaster in Thailand, some are completing it in Beau Vallon and some are heading home. Sad times. But the camp soon filled up again with the arrival of 15 new and extremely enthusiastic volunteers! Since then life has been pretty fun packed on camp, we even had an arrival of a giant centipede, he was a little grumpy and bit poor charlotte!

The new volunteers are settling back into diving super well and are cruising through their Advanced Open Water skills! They have already completed their navigation, naturalist and peak performance dives. So they are going to be surveying the reef in no time!

The community work here has also taken on the challenge of painting a huge wall at the Presidents Village orphanage, so as presumed, that can get a little messy! But the volunteers are doing a fantastic job at painting the design on the wall, so that’s coming along pretty awesome. It’s also good to see the children getting excited over what it’s going to look like.