Category: Latest News
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Issue 11 of the WIOMSA Magazine focusing on Ecosystem Restoration is out!
This issue focuses on restoring damaged coastal ecosystems and includes Nature Seychelles’ coral reef restoration project, which is celebrating 10years of action.
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IUCN Congress Newsletter: Remaining ocean champions, not victims
Cousin Island Special Reserve was the island famously bought for conservation by BirdLife International in 1968, and it is now managed by Nature Seychelles. I visited the island at the beginning of the year to inspect catastrophic coastal erosion that had occurred, and it was the first time I had seen anything like it since…
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Seychelles Nation: Review of Beach Control Act for better management of our beaches
(Seychelles Nation) The beach is of paramount importance as it is the most important unique selling point of Seychelles. All agencies should play their roles and there should be better coordination between all stakeholders to make a difference in terms of beach management. This was said by the Minister for Tourism, Civil Aviation, Ports and Marine, Didier…
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Report finds fish catch from Seychelles was 1.5 times higher than reported
(Seychelles News Agency) – There are discrepancies between the actual quantities and species of fish caught in Seychelles’ waters and what is being reported by national and international regulatory bodies, a newly published report found.
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Download The Graphic Guide to Marine Protected Areas
This scientific resource, The Graphic Guide to Marine Protected Areas, which has been worked on by a global group of leading marine scientists and MPA managers, including Dr. Nirmal Shah Nature Seychelles’ CEO, is now presented in a graphic, comic-book style format. We encourage everyone to circulate this excellent document. It is designed to clearly communicate…
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Seychelles Coast Guard gains new powers to fight illegal activity
(Seychelles News Agency) – The Seychelles Coast Guard has new powers to fight illegal activity in the island nation’s waters after a new law came into force. President Danny Faure assented to the Defence (Amendment) Act last Tuesday after it was approved by the National Assembly.
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MPAs, COVID-19, and the coming financial crisis: What impacts are practitioners already seeing, and how are they responding?
Nature Seychelles’ Chief Executive Dr. Nirmal Shah is one of ten MPA practitioners worldwide who have given their first-hand reports on the impacts of COVID19 and the Financial crisis on marine protected areas. “The future of conservation, I think, will lie in disruptive technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, blockchain and cryptocurrencies. These…
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Study indicates alarming fall in dolphin numbers in the Indian Ocean
A study of how many dolphins are caught in tuna fishing nets estimates the mammals may now be at just 13 percent of their numbers prior to 1980. James Cook University’s Dr. Putu Mustika was part of an international group that looked at the bycatch from tuna gillnets (including driftnets) in the Indian Ocean. The group…
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Sri Lankan illegal fishing vessel is the first to be intercepted in 2020
A Sri Lankan registered fishing boat has been intercepted by the Seychelles Coast Guard (SCG) on suspicion of fishing illegally in the Seychelles Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).
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Fishing community holds meeting on Bourzwa ban
According to the Today in Seychelles of 28 February 2020, the Fishermen and Boat Owners Association (FBOA) held a meeting on 27 February following the President’s State of the Nation Address (SONA 2020) in which he declared a ban on the commercial exportation of the imperial red snapper (bourzwa).