Month: April 2022
Kitesurfing in Seychelles Aside from its beaches, Seychelles also boasts a wide variety of water sports activities. One of its favorites and where people from all over the world come to experience kitesurfing. What is Kitesurfing? Kitesurfers glide across the top of the waves on a board that’s similar in size and shape to a […]
(Seychelles News Agency) – Seychelles will launch its first atmospheric balloon satellite to collect data on greenhouse gases on Thursday, April 28. The event is a collaboration between the Department of Science and Technology in Seychelles and Space Kidz India (SKI) – an aerospace organisation for young scientists – through which 30 trained students from the island nation […]
Heat-resilient “super corals”: Nature Seychelles setting up aquaculture farm for future corals (Seychelles News Agency) – Nature Seychelles, a nonprofit organisation, is planning to set up a land-based aquaculture coral farm on the island of Praslin to produce more heat-resilient super corals, which are better engineered to adapt to continuously rising ocean temperatures. The organisation’s chief […]
(Seychelles News Agency) – Seychelles won 14 medals — six gold, four silver and four bronze — and set a new championship record at the CANA Zone IV Championship 2022, the Southern African competition organised by the Africa Swimming Confederation in Lusaka, Zambia recently. Seychelles’ relay team made up of Joshua Miller, Alain Vidot, Adam Moncherry and […]
(Seychelles News Agency) – Seychelles is gearing up for the 9th edition of the Francophonie Games in the Democratic Republic of Congo in August 2023 and the final selection of participants will be announced in December. The Games, which are a mixture of artistic and sporting events for French-speaking countries, are scheduled for July 28 to August 6, […]
(Seychelles News Agency) – Seychelles will finalise its Marine Spatial Plan in December this year and move to the implementation of activities that will be allowed in the designated Marine Protected Areas, said the project manager on Wednesday. Helena Sims gave an update on the developments of the plan to all partners concerned at a workshop held […]
Victoria Clock Tower Victoria’s Clock Tower, also known as Lorloz, is one of the oldest and most prominent landmarks in the country of Seychelles, was first constructed in 1903 and turned 115 years old in 2018. Positioned at the junction of Independence Avenue and Francis Rachel Street, it is essentially the hub of the town. […]
(Seychelles News Agency) – A podcast by two Seychellois students passionate about climate change and the sustainability of Seychelles started on Monday. The podcast called ‘Together Far Apart podcast of UN Moves’, which focuses on small island states, was made by Stacy Coopoosamy and Zoe. The first episode was “Let’s hear it for seagrass.” The content for the […]
(Seychelles News Agency) – Seychelles has won the GIST Green Travel Award for its efforts to preserve its natural beauty and protect wildlife with sustainable tourism at the Trade and Consumer Fair BIT 2022 in Milan. Tourism Seychelles – the marketing arm of the tourism department – said on Wednesday that the island nation walked away from […]
Together Far Apart – Podcast Together Far Apart, is a podcast about the shared challenges of communities that may be far apart on the globe but are united in their hopes and ambitions for a brighter future. Together Far Apart is by the United Nations Office for the Most Vulnerable States (UN-OHRLLS), un.org/ohrlls In this episode […]
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Congratulations Seychelles!!!!! Seychelles’ Pavilion at the Dubai Expo 2020 has won a gold award for Best Exhibition Design in the sustainability thematic district, presented in a ceremony on Thursday on the closing day of the event. In presenting his heartiest congratulations to the Seychelles Expo 2020 team, Seychelles’ President Wavel Ramkalawan said that “as one of the smallest island […]
