Staff from two reserves of the Seychelles National Parks Authority (SNPA) are joining forces to clean nature trails on La Digue, as the authority faces financial constraints and is unable to pay private contractors. The 1-kilometre-long Nid D'aigle trail was the first to be maintained by the team of 10 SNPA staff from the Veuve [...]
The trial of five suspected Somali pirates who were transferred to the Seychelles by EU NAVFOR in April last year will start in the Seychelles Supreme Court on Aug. 30. The suspects appeared before Justice Gustave Dodin at the Supreme Court via videolink and were informed of the starting date of their trial and the [...]
Bolivia's interim president became the latest world leader to test positive for the coronavirus Thursday, as the United States notched yet another record-breaking surge of cases while global infections and fatalities continued their relentless rise. COVID-19 has now claimed more than 550,000 lives across the planet, and infected more than 12 million people since it [...]
Forty-two Seychellois seamen who worked on European Union fishing vessels have received backdated payment from an adjustment in their salaries, a top official of the Seychelles Fisheries Authority said. The payments will be paid to around 45 seamen who worked on EU vessels January 18, 2014 to January 17, 2020 and around 100 seamen who [...]
A national census will be held in 2021 to establish the true population of the sooty tern on the outer islands of Seychelles. This will allow the species – whose eggs are a seasonal delicacy for the locals - to be managed in a more sustainable manner, preserving the egg gathering tradition. The chief [...]
Almost all species of lemur, the small saucer-eyed primates native to Madagascar, face extinction, an international conservation body warned on Thursday, adding to its growing list of animals and plants under threat. Of the 107 surviving lemur species on the island, some 103 are threatened, including 33 that are critically endangered -- the last stop [...]
Seychelles is ranked first in Africa on the Environmental Performance Index 2020, scoring high marks in the protection of biodiversity. The archipelago in the western Indian Ocean is ranked 38th out of 180 countries globally, performing above the regional and world average in almost all indicators. The principal secretary for environment, Alain Decommarmond, told a press [...]
Millions in Australia's second-biggest city went into lockdown Thursday to battle another coronavirus outbreak, as spikes across the world added to the devastation already wrought by the pandemic. The number of infections and deaths has risen relentlessly in many of the world's biggest nations, with the United States crossing three million confirmed cases. In Melbourne, [...]
West African crew members joining a French fishing fleet operating in the Seychelles’ waters will make crew changes via another Indian Ocean-based island under a newly signed agreement. The Public Health Commissioner, Jude Gedeon, told a news conference Wednesday that under the agreement West African crew members will not be allowed to join their ships [...]
Kenya on Wednesday launched talks to seal a free trade agreement with the United States which it hopes will transform its economy, despite criticism it will undermine regional integration. Trade Minister Betty Maina said striking the bilateral trade agreement was crucial to "secure trade and investment relations" ahead of the lapse of the African Growth [...]
