Coastal Wetlands and Climate Change

COASTAL WETLANDS AND CLIMATE CHANGE A project that provides Seychelles an opportunity to integrate blue carbon habitats within the country’s NDC for both its mitigation and adaptation value BACKGROUND In 2015, the international community signed the Paris Agreement, and in less than a year, the ambitious Paris Agreement was entered into force. Central to the […]

Photo Credits

Photo Credits Sincere thanks are due to the following photographers for allowing us to use their photographs on our website. Note, these photographs are excluded from the Creative Commons licence that applies to other works on this website. Homepage Sharks: Imrad Ahmad, Courtesy of SIF School of Fish: Chris Mason-Parker  Bio plastics: Tobin Jones Our […]

Formalising creole words for seagrass

In 2021, SeyCCAT, in collaboration with the Lakademi Kreol Sesel, launched a national campaign to identify official Creole words and terms for seagrass and its five lifeforms. The exercise was part of the Coastal Wetlands and Climate Change project’s activities to raise awareness on seagrass in the country. The project which started in 2020 had two […]

Seychelles Seagrass ID Guide

Citizen scientists, snorkellers and divers, marine researchers now have a new source of data to identify seagrass in their natural habitats and to investigate, if they so wish, seagrass diversity. The general public and the scientific community are the two target groups which were identified by SeyCCAT’s Coastal Wetlands & Climate Change project to receive […]