Project Report
| Jul 14, 2025
Seychelles conservation work continues
By Seychelles Team | Seychelles project team
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Your generosity continues to make a meaningful difference in our mission to protect and restore marine ecosystems in the Seychelles. Over the first half of 2025, your contributions have enabled us to expand our conservation activities, strengthen community outreach, and advance our understanding of reef health and marine debris.
Here are some of the key highlights from 2025:
- Our team conducts regular surveys on reef fish, invertebrates, and corals. These efforts provide essential data to inform conservation strategies and were made possible thanks to your support.
- We’ve continued with work on two coral nurseries through coral fragmentation and propagation. These nurseries play a vital role in rehabilitating damaged reefs, increasing coral resilience, and supporting biodiversity recovery in local marine habitats.
- We remain committed to ocean education and awareness, especially among young people. Through school outreach activities, we’ve engaged local students in learning about marine ecosystems, conservation challenges, and practical actions like recycling. Inspiring the next generation of environmental stewards is key to long-term change.
- Our ongoing beach cleanups have removed over of marine litter so far this year. These efforts not only protect marine life but also raise awareness about the impacts of plastic pollution and the importance of responsible waste management.
- We’ve assisted with Baited Remote Underwater Video (BRUV) research to monitor shark populations and other key predators in Northern Mahé. This monitoring contributes valuable insights to regional marine conservation efforts and helps guide protective policies.
Thanks to your continued support, we’re able to maintain momentum across our programs, including coral restoration, biodiversity research, marine debris removal, and youth education. Each contribution helps us take another step toward a healthier, more resilient ocean.
We look forward to sharing more updates with you as the year progresses. Together, we are safeguarding Seychelles’ unique marine ecosystems for future generations.
Dec 6, 2024
Team effort in Seychelles
By Seychelles Team | Project team
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Thank you for your continued support of the Coral Reef Conservation project in the Seychelles. Your contributions play a vital role in advancing Seychelles' conservation efforts and empowering our research on reef health and marine debris.
Your generosity has enabled us to carry out critical tasks, including equipping our team and sustaining our ongoing activities. Here’s a glimpse of what we’ve been working on recently:
- Biodiversity Surveys: Alongside our routine data collection on fish, invertebrates, and corals, we’ve conducted specialized endangered species and biodiversity surveys. Your support has been instrumental in providing the resources needed for these efforts.
- Coral Nurseries: We’ve been busy fragmenting corals to expand two coral nurseries. These nurseries are crucial for restoring damaged reef ecosystems.
- Community Engagement: We value working with school children and building their understanding and appreciation of the ocean and discussing the importance of recycling. Working with students is so crucial to the future of our oceans.
- Beach Cleanups: Our regular beach cleanups continue to make a difference.We have collected well over 100 kg of litter this year.
- Shark Monitoring: We’ve had the privilege of assisting with BRUV (Baited Remote Underwater Video) research to monitor sharks and other key predators in Northern Mahé’s waters, contributing valuable data to marine conservation.
Thanks to your support, we continue our essential research, education initiatives, coral reef nursery work, and debris removal from oceans, beaches, and mangroves.
Your contributions are making a real impact, and we look forward to sharing more progress in the future. Together, we’re creating a healthier, more sustainable marine environment. Thank you!
Jul 25, 2024
Expanding work in Seychelles
By Seychelles team | Seychelles Project team
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We appreciate your ongoing support of the Coral Reef Conservation project in the Seychelles. Our research is a contributing factor to Seychelles' conservation efforts.
Your donations have helped us to continue our research on reef health and aquatic debris, and your generous donations help us equip for these tasks.
Here are just a few examples of what we've been up to recently.
- We've been fragmenting corals for our not one, but two coral nurseries! We look forward to updating you in our next report.
- We spent a day with some school children giving thanks to the ocean and talking about the importance of recycling! we had fun turning some of our recycling into the Seychelles flag for the school to display.
- We continue our regular beach clean ups. In one of our most recent morning clean ups we collected a total of 80 kilos of trash plus 61 plastic and 24 glass bottles
- One weekend we showcased our work at Dekouver Nou Losean.With the climate crisis in mind we chose to focus on our coral reef restoration efforts, with a miniature model of our coral nursery, painted corals to show how to do coral watch surveys. We spoke to adults and children about how they can help save our reefs and the whole event was a huge success!
- Recently, we have been lucky enough to assist with some BRUV (Baited Remote Underwater Video) research to assess the presence of sharks and other important predators in areas of Northern Mahe.
- We acknowledged the 10th anniversary of women’s dive day. it works to promote inclusion and encourage more women to dive!
- In addition to our standard data collection on fish, invertebrates, and corals, we've conducted endangered species surveys and biodiversity surveys in Seychelles. Your support with resources for these surveys is greatly appreciated.
Thanks for your fantastic support, which helps us continue our essential research, education work, and work in the coral reef nursery. It also supports our ongoing efforts to clean debris from the ocean, beaches, and mangroves.
We look forward to updating you next quarter