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On his recent visit to the Seychelles, Discover Animals’ Geoff Moore also spent time filming at the island’s fruit bat rehabilitation centre, Protect Paradise, finding out how vital the animals are to the islands’ eco-system. He talks to Tamara Dreyer, who set up Protect Paradise, about how the organisation rescues the fruit bats (also known … Read more
In this short film, Discover Animals’ Geoff Moore returns to the Seychelles to find out how the Hilton Northolme is reinstating a coral reef, spending four days with a team of conservationists in the Indian Ocean.
In this film, Discover Animals’ Geoff Moore revisits the Seychelles to talk to Nasreen Khan of the Island Conservation Society, who discusses the new giant tortoise sanctuary project at the Hilton Seychelles Labriz Resort and Spa on Silhouette Island. The sanctuary is over 600 square metres in size and is surrounded by Indian Almond Trees … Read more
In another of our fantastic films from Fregate in the Seychelles, Geoff Moore meets Julie Pezin of Coralive.org to find out how conservationists and researchers on the island are growing coral to study its physiology and to replace lost reefs. In a one-year study, electricity has been harnessed on the ocean floor to create an … Read more
In one of our series of wildlife films from the beautiful Fregate Island in the Seychelles, Geoff Moore talks to Conservation Team Member Han Van Der Sandes about how he tracks the island’s famous Giant Tortoises, which numbered over 2,000 at the last count.
In the third of our films from Fregate Island in the Seychelles, we visit Grand Anse beach to see how the island’s conservation team helps turtle hatchlings on their way from the nest to the shore; each turtle can lay up to five nests a season, containing on average 150-180 eggs, but only one out of … Read more
In the second of our films from Fregate Island in the Seychelles, we meet the Magpie Robin, a native species that was on the brink of extinction, with only 12 left in the world. Conservation efforts have now succeeded in building the population back up, and the island’s Giant Tortoises have created a symbiotic relationship … Read more
In the first of a series of films on the wildlife of Fregate Island in the Seychelles, and following on from Discover Animals visit to ZSL London Zoo to find out more about the conservation of the world’s rarest beetle, our videographer Geoff Moore travelled to the only place on Earth where they can be found … Read more
Wilderness Safaris, Africa’s leading sustainable ecotourism operator, has introduced its next Travel with Purpose itinerary, The Noah’s Ark Project. This conservation-focused journey offers guests the opportunity to explore the exclusive North Island in Seychelles from 24 to 28 September 2018, whilst actively taking part in the survey, capture and release of the Seychelles white-eye, one … Read more
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