{"id":2670,"date":"2016-04-03T14:25:22","date_gmt":"2016-04-03T14:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/?p=2670"},"modified":"2018-09-13T08:29:55","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T08:29:55","slug":"translocating-conservation-success-and-skills-exchange-across-four-indian-ocean-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2016\/04\/03\/translocating-conservation-success-and-skills-exchange-across-four-indian-ocean-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Translocating conservation success and skills-exchange across four Indian Ocean countries"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many global conservation success-stories originate from Seychelles and Mauritius. Remarkably, however, propagating these much-needed skill-sets elsewhere doesn\u2019t happen naturally, particularly across low-income and island nations. Building upon previous success, we will implement three flycatcher reintroductions, and via a newly-established regional \u2018training hub\u2019, galvanise skill-sharing between four Indian Ocean countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Principal Investigator:<\/th>\nDr Jim Groombridge<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Co-Investigator:<\/th>\nRachel Bristol<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Project dates:<\/th>\nApril 2016 – March 2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Funding:<\/th>\nDarwin Initiative (Defra)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Collaborators:<\/th>\nSeychelles National Parks Authority, Mauritian Wildlife Foundation, Dahari, Durrell Conservation Training Limited<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Building on Success<\/h3>\n

A previous Darwin-funded project on Seychelles<\/strong> (Project 15-009) reintroduced 23 critically-endangered Seychelles Paradise-Flycatchers from La Digue Island to Denis Island, successfully establishing a 2nd population alongside intensive habitat restoration.
\nThat reintroduced population has grown to 70+ birds breeding in replanted and restored habitat. Seychelles\u2019 Government wishes to replicate this success to additional islands to galvanise whole-island ecosystem restoration elsewhere and to secure the species\u2019 down-listing. Elsewhere in the Indian Ocean, the Mascarene Paradise-Flycatcher on Mauritius<\/strong> is prioritised by MWF for habitat restoration and reintroduction. Combining these parallel intentions provides a novel, highly effective, collaborative opportunity for galvanising conservation success<\/strong> elsewhere<\/strong> and fostering much-needed skills-exchange across international boundaries.<\/p>\n

Galvanising regional impact across the Indian Ocean<\/h3>\n

Low-income and island nations, such as Madagascar and Comoros, are less able to benefit from neighbourhood success, as a consequence of their poverty and isolation which, together with language barriers can profoundly limit skills-exchange opportunities. Fortuitously, an international conservation academy has recently been set up on Mauritius as a world-class \u2018training hub\u2019, providing a timely mechanism for facilitating regional\/international impact.<\/p>\n

Embracing both these opportunities this project will:<\/p>\n

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  1. Implement three flycatcher reintroductions <\/strong>on Seychelles and Mauritius, and facilitate network-building exchange-visits<\/strong> between Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius and Seychelles, linked to associated habitat\/ecosystem restoration aspects of these and other \u2018live\u2019 field projects (all four countries host highly evolutionarily distinct endemic flycatchers and also have active recovery-programmes for several other threatened endemic species).<\/li>\n
  2. \u00a0Compliment this in-situ<\/em> skill-sharing with regional capacity-building<\/strong> by funding citizens from Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius and Seychelles on Durrell Conservation Training Ltd’s Postgraduate Diploma in Endangered Species Recovery<\/a> (at the newly-established conservation \u2018training hub\u2019 on Mauritius) and DICEs UK-based MSc in Conservation Science and Management<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Our dual approach<\/strong>, combining exchange of key conservation skill-sets<\/strong> and formal training<\/strong>, will build lasting capacity and crucial employment opportunities for LDC citizens.<\/p>\n

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