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  • Research: Roaming seabirds need ocean-wide protection, research shows

    Unlike other oceans, which are known to have specific “hotspots” where predators, including seabirds, gather in large numbers to feed, the Indian Ocean lacks such concentrated feeding areas, a recent paper has revealed. This lack of hotspots is particularly concerning given the various threats seabirds face due to human activities.[…]

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  • Saya de Malha leaves for its third dFAD clean-up expedition

    (Seychelles Nation) The Saya de Malha vessel of the Seychelles Coast Guard (SCG) left Port Victoria yesterday afternoon for its third drifting Fishing Aggregate Devices (dFAD) expedition clean-up exercise in Seychelles territorial waters and shores of the outer islands. As customary since the first expedition in October 2022, students from Seychelles[…]

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Coral Aquaculture Facility!

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We have started work on the Assisted Recovery of Corals (ARC) facility to revolutionise our coral reef restoration process Learn more

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Implementing the SDGs

At Nature Seychelles we are committed to working with government, development partners and donors in implementing relevant actions, in particular, looking at certain goals where we can build on our existing strengths. Read more

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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Cable & Wireless donates to Nature Seychelles and other local charities

cableNature Seychelles and other local charities have received generous donations from local telcom Cable & Wireless as contributions to what the company has called "positive impacts" project. On Friday 22 November at a special event to conclude the 120th year anniversary campaign the company has been running, various local charities received donations from a pool of SR 120,000. Nature Seychelles donation amounted to SR 15,000.

Seychelles’s first telecommunications company was born when on November 11th, 1893, the founding company of Cable and Wireless, the Eastern Telegraph Company, connected Seychelles with the rest of the world by a submarine telegraph cable link to Zanzibar. To celebrate this big anniversary, the company ran a series of activities involving its customers and the Seychelles community at large. The event on Friday was held to award lottery winners and to recognise organisations "which exists solely for the benefit of mankind and the environment we live in."

Speaking at the Event, Cable & Wireless Chief Executive Mr. Charles Hammond said that the company has been working closely with the community, through local charities, to bring assistance where it matters.

"You represent those who are in need and you champion their causes; therefore, it is an honour for us to offer our assistance. We all should be grateful of the work that you do for the betterment of society, and are pleased that you are able to be here this evening," Mr. Hammond said.

“This is not the first time Cable & Wireless is assisting Nature Seychelles, having partnered with us in the past in public awareness and education activities,” said Dr. Nirmal Shah, Chief Executive of Nature Seychelles who was present at the event.

This donation comes at a time when Nature Seychelles have launched a Corporate Social Responsibility programme to entice other local businesses to work with it under the recently introduced CSR Tax regime. Local businesses have already made contributions in this regard with Hunt, Deltel  & Company Limited donating towards the printing of the materials for the CSR programme.

A brochure describing activities and programmes that businesses can partner in has been uploaded on Nature Seychelles' website, which local business can download.

“The CSR tax is seen as burdensome by companies, especially since some businesses say they are already making donations over and above their CSR tax quota. But from the NGO side we believe this is an opportunity to build sustainable, long term partnerships with the private sector. I believe enlightened companies like Cable & Wireless Seychelles support this type of strategy,”  Shah said.

Other companies that have recently shown their CSR by partnering with Nature Seychelles include Sun Excavators who generously donated manpower and machinery allowing the organisation to significantly increase the scope of work that has been undertaken at the Sanctuary at Roche Caiman.

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