2016 has been a great year for Sooty Terns on Bird Island, and this year has been one of the best for Bird Island’s Sooty Tern colony, with more birds nesting than in the past few years.
2016 has been a great year for Sooty Terns on Bird Island, and this year has been one of the best for Bird Island’s Sooty Tern colony, with more birds nesting than in the past few years. By June, the main part of the colony was packed with birds nesting at high densities – up to six nests per square meter. More birds were still arriving in the month of July and occupying the open plains in the northern part of the island. This point was discussed by Alain St.Ange, the Seychelles Minister responsible for Tourism and Culture, as he spoke to conservation-based journalists at the Top Resa Tourism Trade Fair in Paris.
In his second year mandate as President of the Vanilla Islands, Alain St.Ange, who also holds the portfolio as the Seychelles Minister for Tourism and Culture, is engaging in the daunting task of incr
In his second year mandate as President of the Vanilla Islands, Alain St.Ange, who also holds the portfolio as the Seychelles Minister for Tourism and Culture, is engaging in the daunting task of increasing air connectivity within the islands of the Vanilla grouping and reducing the cost of travel between these Islands.
In an interview published by the magazine, “Ile en Ile” of La Reunion, Alain St.Ange did not fail to reiterate that the Vanilla Islands concept of unifying the tourism promotional campaigns for the islands of La Reunion, Madagascar, Comoros, Mayotte, Seychelles, Mauritius, and Maldives could only work when an effective direct air access framework between these Islands becomes a reality. The President of the Vanilla Islands reiterated that this remains a real chall