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Saving Paradise

http://savingparadise.wildlifedirect.org/

A blog about the diversity of Seychelles’ wildlife and the work of Nature Seychelles, a non-profit environmental organization.

• Added on: Aug 27th, 2009
• Country: Seychelles
• Language: English

• Author: Liz
• Listed in: Science & Nature Endangered Species
• Tags: environment endangered species conservation wildlife birds seychelles

Recent Posts

• More on turtle work

  Posted on Monday November 23rd, 2009 at 05:52 in turtles, nature seychelles, cousin island, data logors

  Hawksbill turtles go into some sort of trance when laying their eggs and mademoiselle here shows us how that looks like. While she is in this low state of awareness, her eggs are quickly counted and weighed.This is done by two people as it has to b...

• Photo ID anyone?

  Posted on Monday November 16th, 2009 at 05:08 in seychelles, turtles, marine life, whale sharks

  No two individuals, even identical twins, have identical sets of fingerprints. For this reason fingerprints offer a reliable means of identification. They have played a huge role in the area of forensics providing accurate identification of criminals...

• Turtle nesting foray begins

  Posted on Tuesday November 10th, 2009 at 11:05 in turtles, monitoring, hawksbill turtle, cousin island

  It is that time of the year again and hawksbill turtles are making their annual pilgrimage to our shores to nest. The hawksbill breeds throughout Seychelles, peaking between mid-October and mid-January.  On Cousin Island, Conservation Officer Eric B...

• The secret lives of shearwaters

  Posted on Wednesday November 4th, 2009 at 05:51 in seabirds, cousin island, wedge tailed shearwater

  This post was contributed by Michelle Kappes and Kevin Coustaut, Laboratoire d’Ecologie Marine at the Université de la Réunion. Shearwaters, like most seabirds, spend most of their lives at sea.  In order to learn about where shearwaters go when...

• Bird rescue on Mahe

  Posted on Wednesday October 28th, 2009 at 05:12 in mahe, nature seychelles, cousin island, wedge tailed shearwater, wilson's storm petrel

  This week we had the privilege of the brief company of two seabirds at our office - a wedge-tailed Shearwater, Fouke in Creole, and Wilson’s storm petrel. Both Birds had been found and rescued by members of the public. The storm petrel before ...

• Club members inspire at Garden Opening

  Posted on Wednesday October 21st, 2009 at 02:29 in heritage gardens, heritage gardens project, wildlife clubs of seychelles

   We had a wonderful opening of the Heritage Garden at Roche Caiman on World Food Day (see related posts preceding this one). During the opening, Wildlife Clubs members Elissa Lalande and Isis Rath gave an inspiring speech. I have copied it below in ...

Comments & Reviews

This blog is currently rated a 5.00 out of a possible 5 based on 1 comment.

Caroline Luley

Super nice blog. Great photos, informative content, I love the template! Good ideas all over the place. Bloggers could learn something here. Oh, and I love animals! Will be back.

Posted: October 20th, 2009 | More Reviews From spacecoaststargirl | Report This Comment

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