Nature Seychelles project keeps "tags" on fish
The Rabbit fish (Kordonyen blanc) that you find on your plate can swim fantastic distances. This was one of the delightful anecdotes that our fish researcher shared with us recently as we chatted about her project. "A Rabbit fish leaves Cousin Island and swims 3 km during the full moon to a spawning site," Tove says as she starts doing her maths. "It weighs an average of 300 grams, so it’s the equivalent of a normal-sized human swimming 600 km. That's pretty far; it's one third of the distance from the Seychelles to Tanzania!" she jokes.Tove is looking at information she has gathered under a Nature Seychelles' project that is investigating the habitats and migratory movements of commercially valuable fish species within and outside the Cousin Island Marine Protected Area (MPA).
On New Year's day we shared a photo of a beautiful sunrise over Cousin on our Facebook page. The picture with its muted tones, calm sky and sea was very popular. Little did we know that things would be different in just a few days and the pictures from Cousin would tell a completely different story.Cousin was affected by the bad weather we've experienced in the past few days. Trees have fallen and roofs have been rattled. In the words of one of our staff on Cousin, it felt like someone was shaking our little island. "Honestly I was frightened the other night; we had a 2 hour bombardment of thunder and lightning!" another said. "My house got struck twice and the island is flooded."
Nature Seychelles' wetland manager Robin has returned from 11 exciting days of an inaugural mangroves training course in Kenya. The training was organised by the Western Indian Ocean Mangrove Network.
The number of bird species listed as Critically Endangered has reached an all-time high according to this year’s 