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, August 21, 2013

21/08/13 Gabrielle's Amazing 3 Weeks

These are all the amazing things I have done for the last three weeks at Cap Ternay:

· Learned how to open a coconut (even if it took me more than 30 minutes to do it)
· Saw turtles, rays but most importantly two raccoon butterfly fish with my lucky buddy
· Planned to go to Bird Island, to Secret Beach, to go night diving and having picnics on the mountain and end up at Ephelia
· Played rounders ; still don’t know the rules ; I just understand that you have to hit the ball and run
· Learnt how to make bread ; my first and only attempt did not end well since the cat ate it and I had to throw it away (probably for the best)
· NOT had a hot shower after the dives
· Unsuccessfully tried to pronounce “butter” with a proper British accent
· Said too many times “it’s ok”, “so sad”, “scootch” and “cookies”
· Ate way, way, way too much onions and smelt like onions for the whole stay

And of course met great people even if sometimes I can’t really understand what they are telling me. When it happens, I just nod and smile, hoping it will be sufficient.