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, April 18, 2013

18/04/13 Charlie' Blog

It is now Day 10 of my 2 months here and I can’t believe how fast it has gone! These initial few days have been busy, with lectures on Marine Biology and Surveying which, have been really helpful, informative and engaging. I am highly looking forward to passing my Invert exams and getting on with surveying the huge variety of species living here. The diving here is fantastic, super clear water, incredible wildlife and amazingly warm water – bath temperature! I am looking forward to diving more of the 24 diving spots available to us! Yet to see a turtle or shark but I keep my hopes up…

Life on base is very friendly and everyone is having an awesome time. I have probably heard enough reggae music in these first days to last a life time, but the atmosphere has been brilliant. The whole group varies duties everyday to keep the camp clean, oxygen flowing, preparing meals and so on… I have had a great first few days and am highly anticipating the next 7 weeks to come! Deep dive tomorrow…