By Mo El Saadany | Project Leader
Earlier this year our team in the Seychelles received a 1st bleaching alert from CORDIO (Coastal Ocean Research and Development - Indian Ocean). Right now, parts of the Western Indian Ocean are recording temperatures 1-2 °C warmer than the baseline. There is a critical need to monitor the coral reef ecosystems and record the impacts, during and after the bleaching event to understand the reactions to the increasing ocean temperatures and input into regulation and policy.
The event has coincided with our participation ini GVI Charitable Programs “The 6th Mass Extinction” campaign. The campaign aims to highlight the current conservation and climate crisis we all face, and are all causing, and actions we can take to avert the crisis. The actions and activities will be held on and around Earth Day, this week, and nearly 500 people around the world have signed up to take part. Here in Seychelles we will be running community environmental awareness sessions, including teaching environmental education lessons, getting community members out snorkelling on the reef to teach them about the reefs and the amazing natural resources, and conducting a community beach clean to remove anthropogenic debris from the environment and learn about the 3 r’s, reducing, re-using and recycling. Please see the video of Estel and the project team in the Seychelles, who tell us that “climate change is not an abstract concept” inn the Seychelles. Please watch the video to learn more about how their home is being affected, and please share with your friends and family, below.
With the loss of data in 2020 due to COVID restrictions, we are now urgently looking to raise funds to allow a small but effective team of scientific divers to complete 384 surveys across 24 monitoring sites with the aim to have them all complete by the end of June. We also aim to conduct effective training for the SNPA rangers so that they can help monitor areas outside the North West of Mahe. Our target is £1500 GBP. Our project has qualified for GlobalGiving 100 % match funding, for all donations up to 100 USD made prior to midnight on Friday 23rd April. Please see and share our fundraiser page below.
We can not thank you enough for all of your support so far, and for continuing to support us however you can as we work to tackle the conservation and climate crisis, together.
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