Last week the world’s deal makers gave up on the urgency to stop global temperatures rising more than 2 degrees Celsius.

The United Nations climate talks Durban, South Africa ended on Sunday with a so called roadmap which would agree on a treaty in 2015 and for implementation to  start in 2020. For many this was just another attempt to delay decisions on what must be the most urgent danger facing the world.

The latest update of “The Red List of Threatened Species of the World” by the World  Conservation Union is bad news for conservation efforts in Seychelles. The Red List contains assessments of all the species in the world thought to be in danger and now we find that the Coco de Mer, our incredible  botanical icon, is more likely to become extinct than previously thought.

Rovio Entertainment Ltd, world-leading entertainment media company and creator of the unprecedented global gaming phenomenon Angry Birds, on Friday 1 December launched a remarkable new Angry Birds campaigning website in support of the BirdLife Preventing Extinctions Programme, which locally, through Nature Seychelles, is working to save the 'critically endangered' Seychelles Paradise Flycatcher, Vev.

Bobbing on their dingy on a rough sea is where I found the "reef rescuers" working on a Wednesday morning. They were just off Cousin Island Special Reserve, almost hidden from sight by tour boats bringing visitors to the island. The North West monsoon has made the sea choppy but they are very calm. How do they do it? I wondered to myself.