The television programme ‘Inside Africa‘ has thrown the spotlight on the Seychelles archipelago, producing three segments on various conservation endeavors taking place on islands further afield from the more commonly-visited ones.
One of the segments, entitled ‘On this island, the birds are in charge’, covers one very unique island in a very remote location which is trying to protect and restore a precious ecosystem. As green as a lone emerald set against a dazzlingly blue backdrop, almost a hundred kilometers north of the Seychelles’ main island of Mahe, lies the northernmost of the Indian Ocean archipelago’s 115 islands – Bird Island, the small coral island to which over a million migratory seabirds flock each year. Read More
