Blue Economy Nature Seychelles

Tag: Conservation

  • Turtle trance

    Turtle trance

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    This is my first time to Cousin Island as a helper during the hectic turtle season. Although I had no idea what I was walking into, the hawksbill turtles have most definitely exceeded my expectations. During my first month here I had two turtles come on to the beach at the same time time to…

  • The James Michel Foundation expresses support for the world’s first Conservation Boot Camp

    The James Michel Foundation expresses support for the world’s first Conservation Boot Camp

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    James Michel Foundation, Press Release, 16 May 2016: Seychelles Former President James Michel met with Dr. Nirmal Jivan Shah, the Chief Executive of Nature Seychelles, the largest and oldest nature conservation NGO operating in the Seychelles, at Espace building today.

  • D’Arros Island: Seychellois demand answers

    D’Arros Island: Seychellois demand answers

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    TODAY NEWSPAPER; 6th October 2016; N. Tirant: Two years after the announcement that it would be made a protected nature reserve under the Nature Parks and Conservancy Act, the island group of D’Arros, situated 250km from Mahé in Seychelles’ outer islands, is back in the environmental limelight. And this time, the public wants to be…

  • Raising the bar for ecotourism

    Raising the bar for ecotourism

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    PRESS RELEASE: IUCN joins effort to align ecotourism with conservation goals September 12, 2016 – Honolulu, Hawaii — Among the landmark decisions emerging last week from the 2016 International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) World Conservation Congress is a bold decision to improve standards for ecotourism worldwide. Motion 65 (now Resolution 60), “Improving standards in…

  • Bad for your health but great for conservation

    Bad for your health but great for conservation

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    In a recently published study by researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama and McGill University, eating sea turtle eggs could be greatly detrimental to human health owing to the high presence of heavy metals in the eggs. Great news for sea turtles and conservationists protecting these species, but not so for the…

  • Cousin Island – a place like no other

    Cousin Island – a place like no other

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    Packing my bags and saying goodbye to Mahe, I did not know what was ahead for me. The first time I laid my eyes on Cousin Island, I knew at that moment that a new adventure awaited me. With its golden sand, silver clouds and its crystal clear water. Cousin Island is its own little…

  • Debt swap to boost conservation

    Debt swap to boost conservation

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    TODAY in Seychelles, 9th Marth 2016: The Minister for Finance and the Blue Economy believes the decision to settle country’s debt with the Paris Club means more money to promote sustainability and protect the environment