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In 1973, Christopher Cadbury funded the £40,000 purchase of a Seychelles island stripped for coconuts and seabird eggs; today over 1 million seabirds breed there each year
For decades, the small island of Aride in the Seychelles was treated less as a wildlife sanctuary and more as a source of income. Its forests were cleared for cultivation, coconut plantations covered parts of the island and its seabirds became a resource that could be harvested.
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In 1967, Guy Savy and a partner bought a degraded Seychelles island; after restoring nesting habitat, its sooty tern colony rose from under…
A tiny coral island on the northern edge of the Seychelles Bank was once close to ecological collapse. Years of commercial farming, habitat destruction and wildlife exploitation…
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In 1973, Christopher Cadbury funded the £40,000 purchase of a Seychelles island stripped for coconuts and seabird eggs; today over 1…
For decades, the small island of Aride in the Seychelles was treated less as a wildlife sanctuary and more as a source of income. Its forests were cleared for cultivation, coconut…