Tag: Seychelles
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Video: How to transplant corals onto a degraded reef using coral gardening
Nature Seychelles uses the coral gardening method to restore coral reefs affected by bleaching. Jake Letori, one of our Reef Rescuers volunteers illustrates the last stage of the method in this video to demonstrate the coral restoration process happening on Felicite Island, Seychelles: Acroporid and pocilloporid colonies have been growing in a mid-water nursery for…
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Seychelles News Agency: Fishermen on Seychellois island, Praslin, embrace self-imposed limits to boost fish stock
Seychelles News Agency: An association of local fishermen from Praslin, the second-most populated island in Seychelles, has embraced a project that will help maintain the fish stock at one of the island’s bays, said the chairperson of the association. Darell Green said the project aims to conserve part of the Baie St Anne by limiting fishing activities…
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Artisanal fishermen in Seychelles to benefit from new quay, ice machine
(Seychelles News Agency) – A greater number of fishing vessels will be catered for in Seychelles after phase two of the Providence Artisanal Fisheries Facilitieswas inaugurated on Thursday, September 6th. Phase two of the development, costing approximately $10 million, includes the expansion of 216 metres of quay, ten mooring buoys, a landing shed and a ten-tonne…
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Coral nurseries – preparing corals for the reef
Watching, nurturing and documenting the growth and development of corals in a nursery, from a 5 cm fragment to a colony as big as a football, is truly rewarding for the Nature Seychelles’ Reef Rescuers team. The nursery and all the work that goes into its care is an essential part of the reef restoration…
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Seychelles News Agency: Nature Seychelles, in effort to save coral, has grown 50,000 fragments in underwater nurseries
(Seychelles News Agency) – Seychelles has become a leader in the worldwide effort to restore corals grown in underwater nurseries that could help the fragile species adapt to rising water temperatures and climate change. The pioneer in this regard has been Nature Seychelles with their Reef Rescuers project that started eight years ago.
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Blue economy, climate change top the agenda between Seychelles, New Zealand.
Seychelles News Agency: Seychelles and New Zealand, both members of the Commonwealth, will cooperate in the fields of economic relations, the blue economy, and climate change, the newly accredited High Commissioner said on Tuesday.
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Corals and whale shark adventures on Nature Seychelles’ Reef Rescuers program
“3, 2, 1…let’s go,” says Paul, one of the Technical and Scientific Officers for Reef Rescuers, as he signals we are ready to dive.
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Albatross and the rough seas
Nature Seychelles’ Reef Rescuers team was recently invited to collaborate with the Island Resort Six Senses Zil Pasyon and conduct a feasibility assessment. The main objective of this survey was to see if we could implement a Coral Garden Project within the Marine Protected Area (MPA) of Félicité Island.
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Good news for lobster lovers: Lobster catch open until Feb
Seychelles News Agency; 18th January 2017; by Madiha Philo and Betymie Bonnelame – Another lobster harvesting season in Seychelles has been opened until February after a survey showed an increase in the number of the crustaceans in the island nation’s waters, an officer from the Seychelles Fishing Authority (SFA) said.
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The Blue Economy, the SDGs and Innovation: We have to take the Path Less Travelled
The Blue Economy is being heralded as an innovative agenda for setting the pace towards a new Seychelles. As a new development concept, the Blue Economy needs to be unpacked. We need to know what’s under its hood, how it works and how to fuel it.