Seychelles Wildlife

Natural environment of the Seychelles

Seychelles is a unique environment, which sustains a very special biodiversity. It is special for a number of different reasons. These are the oldest oceanic islands to be found anywhere...

Bird Watching

Seychelles Wildlife

Seychelles is a paradise for birdwatchers, you can easily see the unique land birds, the important sea bird colonies, and the host of migrants and vagrants. Some sea bird...

Seychelles Black Parrot

Endemic Bird Species

Black Parrot or Kato Nwar in Creolee is brown-grey in colour, not truly black. Many bird experts treat it as a local form of a species found in Madagascar and...

Fairy Tern

Seabird Species

The Fairy (or white) Tern is a beautiful bird seen on all islands in Seychelles, even islands like Mahe where they are killed by introduced rats, cats and Barn Owls....

Introduced Land Birds

A little over two hundred years ago, there were no humans living permanently in Seychelles. When settlement occurred, people naturally brought with them the animals and plants they needed to...

Native Birds

Although over 190 different species of bird have been seen on or around the central islands of Seychelles (and the number is increasing all the time), many of these are...

Migrant Shore Birds

Shallow seas and estuaries are very rich in invertebrate life. Many birds feed on the worms, crabs and shellfish in these habitats; often, they have long bills for probing sand...

Seychelles Magpie Robin

Endemic Bird Species

The most endangered of the endemic birds, Seychelles Magpie Robin or Pi Santez in Creole, came close to extinction in the late twentieth century; in 1970 there were only about...

Seychelles Blue Pigeon

Endemic Bird Species

The Seychelles Blue Pigeon or Pizon Olande in Creole, spends much of its life in the canopy of trees and eats the fruits of figs, bwa dir, ylang ylang and...

Seychelles White-eye

Endemic Bird Species

The Seychelles White-eye or Zwazo Linet in Creole, is rare and endemic. They may sometimes be seen in gardens and forest over 300m at La Misere, Cascade and a few...

Seychelles Black Paradise Flycatcher

Endemic Bird Species

The Seychelles Black Paradise Flycatcher or the Vev in Creole is endemic to Seychelles, you cannot find this bird anywhere else on earth. Although it was once widespread on...

Seychelles Sunbird

Endemic Bird Species

The tiny sunbird or Kolibri in Creole, is one of the few endemic species that has thrived since humans arrived in the Seychelles.

Achievements

Stopped near extinctions of birds +

Down-listing of the critically endangered Seychelles warbler from Critically Endangered to Near Threatened. Other Seychelles birds have also been saved including the Seychelles Magpie Robin, Seychelles Fody, and the Seychelles…
Restored whole island ecosystems +

We transformed Cousin Island from a coconut plantation to a thriving vibrant and diverse island ecosystem. Success achieved on Cousin was replicated on other islands with similar conservation activities.
Championed climate change solutions +

Nature Seychelles has risen to the climate change challenge in our region in creative ways to adapt to the inevitable changing of times.
Education and Awareness +

We have been at the forefront of environmental education, particularly with schools and Wildlife clubs
Sustainable Tourism +

We manage the award-winning eco-tourism programme on Cousin Island started in 1970

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The Great Gouzon

I have been studying a fish so common in Seychelles that most Seychellois would ask why study them. The fish is an endemic fish the Seychelles Killifish or Gouzon in Kreol.

Known also as Playfairs Panchax, the Jeweled Panchax and the Sawback Killifish, the Gouzon is shown in most fish books as also occurring in mainland Tanzania and Zanzibar. It is not native to those parts but was introduced there. It naturally occurs only in Seychelles.

Study shows why the Chikungunya epidemic started

Previously an obscure disease, chikungunya has now entered the vocabulary of all Seychellois. In La Reunion where it has infected more than one third of the population educational cartoons have been made on the subject. But the disease is no joke. The chikungunya virus outbreak in the Indian Ocean islands is of unprecedented magnitude and has completely surprised the population, policy makers, and public health specialists.

Cousin Island- An advertisement for Seychelles tourism

Millions of people all around the world use the internet to investigate and plan trips to places they want to visit. This is the fastest growing component of the international tourism trade as well as the one holding the most promise of innovation and new services. There are several good web sites that advise people about where to go and what to see. Two such popular websites are Trip Advisor and Ciao. These two sites, which are visited by many thousands of people worldwide, have brilliant reviews of Cousin island.

It makes sense (and dollars) to protect the environment

An email from Rachel Bristol, our NGO representative from Seychelles at the Convention on Biological Diversity meeting in Brazil, last week was all great news. The announcement by the island republics of Kiribati, Palau and Grenada of the creation of new marine protected areas has taken the conservation world by storm. More so that these were made at the launch of the “Global Island Partnership” an event sponsored by an alliance of island governments, UN agencies and NGOs.