Despite sea level rise in Western Indian Ocean, more than 60% of Aldabra Atoll's shoreline remained unchanged from 1960 to 2011, based on aerial and satellite image analysis.
Once again, Fond Ferdinand has been recognised in the Tripadvisor’s® Travellers’ Choice® Awards for 2024.
Fond Ferdinand and the Vallée de Mai UNESCO World Heritage Site have won the Tripadvisor 2023 Travelers’ Choice Awards this August based on 2022 traveller reviews.
The Seychelles Islands Foundation (SIF), the Public Trust mandated to protect and manage Seychelles’ UNESCO World Heritage properties, Vallée de Mai and Aldabra Atoll, as well as the Fond Ferdinand
Following the international research symposium, which took place at the Royal Society in London on the 21st April 2022, the Seychelles Islands Foundation is planning to complete the celebrations fo
Seychelles Islands Foundation (SIF), was proud to celebrate the principle of gender equality on International Women’s Day, 8th March 2020.
The Thirteenth Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS COP13), held from 17th to 22nd February 2020, kicked off the “super year for nature” in Ahmedabad in India. The "super year for nature" includes a UN Summit in September and culminates in the UN Biodiversity Conference at the end of 2020. This is when a new global biodiversity strategy for the next decade will be adopted - the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework.
Aldabra has been listed as an Important Marine Mammal Area (IMMA) by scientists at the Marine Mammal Protected Areas Task Force.
A new research paper published on Aldabra’s endemic white-throated rail Dryolimnas [cuvieri
Today at the Ocean Conference in Oslo, Norway, Marine Conservation Institute and its international science council recognized Aldabra Atoll Special Reserve of the Seychelles, in the western Indian
SIF has awarded its Professor David Stoddart scholarship to two students studying BSc Environmental Science at the University of Seychelles.
Vallée de Mai staff will be talking on Radio Sesel about various research and conservation projects which SIF is carrying out at the UNESCO World Heritage site.
The Seychelles Islands Foundation (SIF) has set up a task force to reduce numbers of the invasive yellow crazy ant, which threatens the unique ecosystem of the Vallée de Mai.
Applications are open this year for one Seychellois with a place to study Environmental Science at the University of Seychelles.
Aldabra now has a stable Internet connection once again. Thank you for your patience in contacting our staff who are based there during this period.