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MARINE
CONSERVATION NEWS
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Publisher: Marine Conservation Society Seychelles, PO Box
1299, Victoria, Mahe ,Seychelles
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Our
Beaches first - keep them clean
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Students
from the Takamaka Primary school
at the clean-up, Photo Mathieu
Grosjean
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The
Marine Conservation Society, Seychelles (MCSS) and Banyan
Tree Resort
would like to thank all those who assisted with the
coastal clean up at
Intendance beach on the 9th June 2004.
The coastal clean up was organised as part of the
Environment Day / Ocean Day programme with the theme for
this year being "Our Beaches first - keep them
clean". During the course of 3 days, over 20
beaches
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July
2004
Vol
2, No. 2
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NOTICE
BOARD |
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Whale Shark Sightings in
2004
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185 reported sightings
101 in-water encounters
29 sharks identified
16 sharks tagged
13 sharks re-sighted from this year |
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MCSS
Helps Bali Install Environmental Moorings
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Volunteers
load-locking an installation.
Photo Helen
Newman |
MCSS
Chairman David Rowat was recently invited to visit Bali to
help start up an environmental moorings project by local
conservationist Helen Newman. David has had several years
of experience of mooring installation in Seychelles and
currently manages the MCSS Mooring programme which
installs and inspects moorings in marine protected areas
around Seychelles.
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Reef
Passes: Critical Marine Habitats
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Over
the last few decades, research on reef fish spawning
aggregations has gathered significant momentum. From the
resulting expanding body of knowledge, it is now possible
to identify several important patterns, which have major
implications for the management of fisheries and the
conservation of biodiversity.
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Marine
Invasive Species at our Door Steps: Seychelles is taking
early measures.
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A
study to investigate the invasion of introduced marine
species on coral reefs was launched last April in the
Seychelles. The project comes as a response to the growing
international concern over the impacts of introduced
marine species. “Alien” marine species are carried to
all corners of the world in the ballast water and/or as
layers of biological fouling on the hulls of ships.
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Protected
but still endangered
~ Seychelles marine turtles
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The peace and tranquility of Anse Major Beach, a popular
picnic spot along the North West coast of Mahe was
shattered on Saturday the 17th July when two snorkellers made an unpleasant
discovery - the remains of six slaughtered Hawksbill
turtles. The body parts, mainly heads, fins and carapaces where collected by MCSS
volunteers on Sunday 18th.....
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Where
do the whale sharks hang out?
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Whale
Shark feeding at the surface. Photo Valerie
Houmeau |
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The
Marine Conservation Society Seychelles (MCSS) has been
conducting research on whale sharks since 1996 but it
wasn’t until 2001, with funding from the Global
Environment Facility that the programme really took off.
One of the objectives of the programme was to identify and
analyse the changes (due to the coral bleaching event of
1998/1999) as applicable to whale sharks.
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Is
the Mauritian white shark sighting a hoax?
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An
unexpected sighting of a Great White Shark in Mauritius
was recently brought to the attention of MCSS. There is
some doubt on the validity of the sighting and MCSS would
like your take on the situation.
According to un-named sources, the shark was seen during a
dive in mid January at Coin de Mire, a popular dive site
in Mauritius.....
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