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It’s not an Easter egg hunt but can you spot the well camouflaged bronze eyed #gecko guarding her eggs? Photo by Jovani Raffin #CousinIsland #NatureReserve #Wildlife #Conservation #Nature #NatureLovers #Seychelles

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A bit of a rocky start in life but the waves helped this #HawksbillTurtle make it out to #sea video by Yan Coquet #ConservationBootCamp program coordinator #CousinIsland #ConservationCareers #ConservationJobs #NatureReserve #Seychelles

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These #GiantAldabraTortoise seem to be enjoying their ‘Mud Bath Spa’ treatment on #CousinIsland. Photo by Tori Hare a recent graduate of our #ConservationBootCamp program #Wildlife #Conservation #ConservationJobs #ConservationCareers #NatureReserve #Seychelles

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This is what office work on #CousinIsland looks like...enjoy the #sunset afterwards. Photo by Jovani Raffin #nature #NatureLovers #NatureReserve #Seychelles #environment #conservationcareers

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Congratulations to @naturesey’s #ReefRescuers boatman based on #FeliciteIsland, Calvin Houareau who just graduated from the #Seychelles Maritime Academy with a certificate in #navigation and #seamanship #MarineConservation #ReefRestoration #IYOR2018

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Just when we thought #turtle #nesting season was over on #CousinIsland, this #HawksbillTurtle Shows up! The current #ConservationBootCamp participants were lucky to witness this during this time of the year. Follow link to join the #conservation adventure on this award winning #nature reserve in the #Seychelles goo.gl/8XDIZh (at Cousin Island)

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Vote for Corales de Paz which has submitted a #coralreef restoration project for financial support to this year's EOCA European Outdoor Conservation Association´s spring call. The project has been pre-selected among more than 140 projects around the world to be voted by the public. The resources requested to EOCA will be used to carry out maintenance and monitoring of the nurseries and fragments for 15 months or until the fragments reach the appropriate size to be transplanted, with the assistance of #artisanalfishermen and volunteer divers.

The public voting is open from 9 to 23 March. Read about the project and vote by visiting www.outdoorconservation.eu or vote directly at the all English and German Websites: http://www.outdoorconservation.eu/project-info.cfm?pageid=19 http://www.eoca.de/project-info.cfm?pageid=19

#IYOR2018 #ReefRestoration #ScubaDiving

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Happy #InternationalWomensDay to all the #women working in #conservationand especially to the women working for Nature Seychelles​ as we celebrate 20 years of existence as a conservation organisation

#NatureSeychellesAt20 #CousinIslandat50 #TwentyFiftyin2018 #IWD2018#NatureChampions

(in photo clockwise: Kerstin Henri, Director, Jedida Oneko, Communications Manager; Chloe Shute​ Reef Rescuers Praslin; Kara Joy​ Science Coordinator;Athina Antoine​ Reef Rescuers assistant; Camila Mariño​ Reef Rescuers-Felicite)

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In Too Deep: The race to save our seas

In this special report, Sky’s Ed Conway takes a look at our economic relationship with the oceans across the world. The ocean is our common source of food, o...

Check out our #ReefRescuers team Chloe & Paul and Nature Seychelles' CEO Dr Nirmal Shah in the recent Sky Ocean Rescue documentary #InTooDeep - focusing on the human impact to our #oceans! #ReefRestoration #BlueEconomy #IYOR2018 

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#Tourists arriving on #CousinIsland...they will be led by one of our wardens on an #eco-guided tour of this island which has been a #NatureReserve for 50years and has the longest running #ecotourism program in the #Seychelles. Video by Jovani Raffin #ImportantBirdArea #MarineProtectedArea (at Cousin Island)

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#Tourists arriving on #CousinIsland...they will be led by one of our wardens on an #eco-guided tour of this island which has been a #NatureReserve for 50 years and has the longest running #ecotourism program in the #Seychelles. Video by Jovani Raffin

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Another happy #beach landing on #CousinIsland Special Reserve by Jovani Raffin

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Our #ReefRescuers team Paul & Chloe are in front of the cameras again, this time with SAT.1 TV...we will keep you posted with dates on when the program will air and if you're not in the region we will have it uploaded on our youtube channel #CoralReefs #ReefRestoration #MarineConservation #IYOR2018 (at Praslin)

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Dr Shah is ‘The #IndianaJones of #wildlife #conservation’ not hard to understand with his many years in conservation and @naturesey Chief executive for 20years. Get your copy in @british_airways’ inflight magazine - #highlife READ it in PDF here: https://goo.gl/p5DWRq #NatureLovers #Seychelles #conservationist #environmentalist

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#mudskipper on the waters edge at #TheSanctuary, managed by @naturesey - the only managed #UrbanWetland in #Seychelles photo by @jedidaoneko We join @ramsar_convention_on_wetlands in 7 days for #WorldWetlandsDay #WWD2018 #SustainableUrbanization #KeepUrbanWetlands #SDG11 (at Roche Caiman)

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Ready, set, go! Father & son race a #GiantAldabraTortoise on #cousinIsland. Our #ChiefWarden’s Sean seems to be having a blast on the #island “ I am introducing him to #conservation. Hope I manage to get him off island, he is really enjoying it and already looking forward to the next school holidays.” Jovani Raffin. #Seychelles #naturereserve #wildlife (at Cousin Island)

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Black Mud #Terrapin spotted on #CousinIsland this week. This species (Pelusios subniger parietalis), is #criticallyendangered and continues to be threatened from habitat loss due to human impact, such as; continuous drainage of #wetland sites, #pollution and #invasiveplant species. All has contributed to the reduced numbers of Black Mud Terrapins around the Seychelles. Here on Cousin Island this species is protected from human–#wildlife conflicts like this. We only have a few Seychelles Black Mud Terrapins here on Cousin Island, but with substantial wetland area, an ideal protected habitat, this species has the opportunity to possibly increase in numbers. Photos and text by @kara4conservation (at Cousin Island)