Clearing invasive Typha at the Sanctuary at Roche Caiman
Category: Sanctuary at Roche Caiman | Date: Sep 30 2009 | By: savingparadise
Here is a you tube video of our efforts to manage the aquatic reed Typha javanica, Zon in Creole. The reed has become invasive and is taking over the central marsh area at the popular urban wetland, the Sanctuary at Roche Caiman.
On Cousin Island, two Seychelles Magpie robin chicks share a nest
Category: Cousin Island, Endemic birds, birds | Date: Sep 18 2009 | By: savingparadise
Here are some pictures taken by student Rachel Cartwright on Cousin Island of an unusual occurrence: two Seychelles Magpie robin chicks sharing a nest. Eric Blais, Conservation Officer and Cousin Island wardens are keeping an eye on the chicks. Cousin is home to a population of some 27 Seychelles Magpie robins. These are part of a total population of approximately 200 individuals found on five of Seychelles islands. The endemic birds were once on the brink of extinction and were classified as critically endangered on IUCN’s Red List. Their recovery through the highly successful Magpie robin Recovery Program - led by BirdLife International and then managed by Nature Seychelles - took this species away from the brink of extinction and saw them down listed to “Endangered”.
Tags: BirdLife, Cousin Island, Nature Seychelles, Seychelles Magpie robin
Picture of the Day: Watch out for the Palm spider, it doesn’t bite though
Category: Invertebrates, Sanctuary at Roche Caiman | Date: Sep 15 2009 | By: savingparadise
Here are photos of the Palm spider, Nephila inaurita a native of Seychelles taken at the wetland at Roche Caiman. I thought I would share them because I keep on walking into them. These large spiders are everywhere in Seychelles. We saw many on the hike on Mont Palmiste. The females sit at the centre of a large web built from heavy strands of silk. The spiders are harmless though, but if you have arachnophobia, you probably wouldn’t want to run into one or hold one as Terence did.
Tags: Seychelles, Spiders, wetland at Roche Caiman
On a lighter note, our Chief appears on the cover of Indian magazine
Category: Nature Seychelles, birds | Date: Sep 09 2009 | By: savingparadise
MISTNET (the Indian Bird Conservation Network Magazine) Volume 10.2 has a picture of Nature Seychelles’ CEO Nirmal Shah on its cover. This was a Special issue covering the Bird Tourism Charter for Asia. The picture (see above) shows Nirmal with a Sooty Tern Serna fuscata perched on his head, and seemingly having a chat with another. Taken on Bird Island, it is set against the backdrop of the famous bird spectacle that occurs on this and other islands from May-September when millions of Sooty Terns descend on the island to breed.
“If this keeps on, I will soon be able to quit my day job”. Shah Says.
Picture taken by Manisha Shah.
Tags: Bird Island, Nature Seychelles, Sooty terns
Update on Frigatebird
Category: Sanctuary at Roche Caiman, birds | Date: Sep 07 2009 | By: savingparadise
Terence (L) and David (Science Coordinator, R) were interviewed about the bird by SBC Radio
The Frigatebird recovered and left. One day last week we went to check on it, as we have been doing every morning, and it was gone from the mangroves where it had been making steady progress towards recovery. For the past week staff at Nature Seychelles have been feeding the bird with fish. At first it had to be force-fed but eventually it got to feeding itself. Soon we noticed it was moving around. It had in fact originally moved from the Bird hide to the mangroves by itself.
The bird has generated quite some interest with both SBC Radio and TV recording nature programmes around it. More about those programmes when they air, but they focused on the bird, where its found in the Seychelles and steps to take when one finds an injured bird.
Tags: Frigatebird, Media, Roche Caiman
Countdown to Copenhagen: Maldives sends a strong message
Category: climate change | Date: Sep 01 2009 | By: savingparadise
In case you have not seen it, a very strong message has been sent by the President of Maldives to the world as we countdown to the climate change talks in Copenhagen in December: “Please don’t be stupid”. The message was sent during the premiere of the “Age of Stupid”, an environmental film set in the devastated future world of 2055 that asks the question, “why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?”
Here is the video from YouTube with the message. The Maldives’ low lying islands are threatened by sea level rise caused by climate change. Island States like the Seychelles are acutely vulnerable to climate change.
See also the “Not stupid Campaign“.
Tags: climate change, Island States, Maldives, Not stupid Campaign, sea level rise, The Age of Stupid
-
-
100% of your donation, minus a small bank fee, will go to your intended purpose.
Donations made here are safe.
-
Donations Received
- Jun 26th Brenton H. USD16.50
-
