#seychelles

[reasonsforhope]

"The Seychelles has become a major tourist destination for beachgoing and scuba diving, but it’s not only humans that are beginning to flock to this island.

In what marine biologists have described as a “phenomenal finding,” a survey of whales around the territorial waters of this archipelagic nation revealed the presence of blue whales—over a dozen.

It’s the first time they’ve been seen in these warm seas since 1966, and it’s a wonderful milestone in a long and increasingly successful recovery for the world’s largest animal.

The Seychelles are located in the Indian Ocean off the east coast of Africa, and they were historically a stopover point for Soviet whalers en route to Antarctica. The years 1963 to 1966 were particularly difficult for whales here, and many were taken before the International Convention on the Regulation of Whaling put an end to the practice of hunting baleen whales in 1973.

Since 1966, no dedicated investigation of whales in the Seychelles had been made until 2020, when a partnership of four universities conducted an acoustic survey over the period of two years.

They made five different sightings of groups of up to 10 animals.

“This was a phenomenal finding,” Jeremy Kiszka, a co-author of the paper from Florida International University, wrote in The Conversation. “We were prepared to not see any blue whales due to the high level of hunting that occurred fairly recently and absolutely no information was available since the last blue whale was killed in the region in 1964.” ...

The team behind the survey sent images taken of the whales’ dorsal sides to a database to see if any of them had been recorded before, and amid the reel, not a single one was a match with any other photographed whale.

This, the team suggests, means they have probably never been seen before, which for a species that big might seem strange, but along with there being only 5,000 to 15,000 on Earth, they migrate vast distances while diving deep, making recording their movements incredibly challenging.

The survey identified 23 whale species in total using hydroponic mics over 2 years with peak activity coming between December and April. This is a fascinating finding that suggests something about the seas around the Seychelles makes for excellent whale habitat."

-via Good News Network, April 30, 2024

#whales #blue whales #animals #marine life #marine biology #sea creatures #cetacean #seychelles #indian ocean #conservation #endangered species #whaling #conservation news #climate hope #good news #hope

[elinerlina2]

Views from the Seychelles

#seychelles #beachlife #beaches #beach #east africa #travel photography #amazing nature #travel #nature #travel destinations #sea #beautiful nature

[atoubaa]

Travaye pou Lanmour, Labour of Love, (Seychelles, 2021) - Natasha Moustache

#Natasha Moustache #Seychellois-american photographer #seychelles

[tropic-havens]

Seychelles Flying Fox (Pteropus seychellensis) in Beau Vallon, Mahé, Seychelles

#seychelles #tropical #animals #flying fox

[herpsandbirds]

Red Fody (Foudia madagascariensis), male, family Ploceidae, order Passeriformes, Bird Island, Seychelles

photograph by RJ Dodd

#fody #weaverbird #foudia #ploceidae #passeriformes #bird #ornithology #animals #nature #africa #seychelles

[psikonauti]

Gian Paolo Barbieri (Italian, b. 1935)

La preda, Seychelles, 2008

#Gian Paolo Barbieri #upl #art #photography #Seychelles #fish #crabs

[federer7]

Pentax Calendar. Seychelles, 1977

Photo: Hans Feurer

#hans feurer #Pentax Calendar #seychelles #1977

[downfalldestiny]

God painting 🌅 !.

#Mahé island #Seychelles #Sea #Beach #Ocean #sea waves #ocean waves #waves #downfalldestiny #downfall #Sunsets #Sun #Calm

[whitefireprincess]

Anse Lazio, Seychelles

#travel #nature #ocean #beach #seychelles #tropical #palm trees #uotd #whitefireprincess

[folkfashion]

Moutya dancers, Seychelles, by Michel Denousse

#creole seychellois #seychelles #africa #folk clothing #traditional clothing #traditional fashion #cultural clothing #eastern africa

[beintree]

Seychelles, Africa 🌍🍃

#art #artists on tumblr #digital art #illustration #nature #seychelles #africa #green #landscape #warm #clip studio paint #palm trees #trees #travel #plants #plant art

[queerafricans]

“The country now joins the growing list of African countries that have decriminalised or legalised same-sex relationships, including Angola, Botswana, Seychelles and Mozambique.”

Mauritius has reversed a colonial-era law criminalising same-sex relations

#mauritius #angola #botswana #seychelles #mozambique

[lionfloss]

Anse Patates Beach, La Digue Island by Vladimir Lyapin

#seychelles #La Digue Island #photography #nature #plants #water #landscape #blue #pink #sea #ocean #islands #island #rocks #beach #sky #skies #sunset #purple #green #nature photography #aesthetic #curators on tumblr

[tropic-havens]

Seychelles

#seychelles #beach #tropical

[20ctrl]

ｂｌｕｅ　ｐａｒａｄｉｓｅ　ブ憶詠

#Bandcamp #vaporwawe #vaporaesthetic #seychelles #vaporart #vhs aesthetic #frutiger aero #retrowave #vhs #retro aesthetic

[brightgreendandelions]

It's (mostly) done!!

the flag maker is finally in a presentable state :) not the embarrassing pile of default css it was on the first day...

i even added a little OpenGraph image preview!!

#textpost #flagmaker #neocities #queer #flags #seychelles #html #js #codeblr #svg #still need to add more flags #and chevrons