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Marine Conservation Society Seychelles, 
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MCSS awarded grant from the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office

On Friday 6th June MCSS Chairman David Rowat  received a cheque of £25,000 from the British High Commissioner Fraser Wilson . The grant from the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office is for the development of a nationwide turtle data management system.

  The timing of the presentation was particularly appropriate to launch this project as it was during the week of World Environment Day when Government had renewed its commitment to turtle conservation.

  Many organisations, governmental, NGO and private, within Seychelles are active in the domain of turtle conservation and the management of their habitat. As such a lot of funds are dedicated to their conservation. This project aims to bring these various actors together, develop a strategy to coordinate methodologies and actions and to build synergies between the various programmes.

 

July 2003  

Vol 1, No. 1
 

 

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David Rowat receives the cheque from BHC Fraser Wilson . Photo Jeanne Mortimer

The project embodies a new innovative approach to marine resource management by setting up a resource and facility to enable coordinated stakeholder and community involvement in marine turtle conservation.  The process, facilitated and backstopped by MCSS, will be stakeholder driven and result in a stakeholder owned and managed database which will inform and guide the development and periodic review of a National Strategy and Action Plan for turtle conservation.

Dr. Mortimer, David Rowat and BHC Fraser Wilson

 The project will further empower stakeholders and communities to participatein turtle conservation, raise the profile for turtle issues and provide information for research and education purposes alike. It will also assist with the implementation of international obligations and provide a model for other similar  small island states in turtle monitoring, management and conservation.

  MCSS believes that through joint and concerted effort Seychelles can effectively manage and conserve turtles and their habitats for the appreciation of future generations of Seychellois and tourist  alike.

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