Seychelles’ environmental non-governmental organisations were reassured of future action-oriented funding last week at a meeting with representatives of the Global Environment Facility which is set to pump millions of dollars into Seychelles, some of it ear-marked for the NGO community.

A good project, hard work and youthful enthusiasm paid off for the Wildlife Clubs of Seychelles at last week’s National Agriculture-Horticulture Show, when Seychelles' head of state President James Michel and his party of officials stopped by to take a look at their Heritage Gardens display.

Cousin Island Special Reserve is more ready than ever to welcome eco-tourists and scientists thanks to a recent two day first aid training course for all of the island’s conservation staff.
Run by the Red Cross, the training session was held at the Island Conservation Centre, Praslin, where the Cousin Island Wardens and other Nature Seychelles staff were put through their paces in a series of medical emergency role-playing exercises.
The first aid course – a refresher exercise for most of the staff, but a new experience for some – focused on how to give frontline CPR and deal with general medical emergencies, such as broken bones, bleeding and heart attacks.

The latest commitment by Indian Ocean industrial fisheries managers to curb levels of by-catch has been warmly welcomed by Nature Seychelles and other environmental groups which have been campaigning for improvements in fishing techniques to cut non-target species fatalities.