Victoria, Seychelles | January
29, 2018, Monday @ 14:10 in Environment » CONSERVATION | By: Sharon Ernesta |Views: 1021
(Seychelles
News Agency) - Cousin Island is this year celebrating 50 years since its
designation as a nature reserve and its conservation and research work.
The island’s major achievement is
its work with the Seychelles
warbler. This endemic bird has been downgraded from critically endangered
to near threatened on IUCN’s Red List of endangered species - a first in bird
conservation.
The island special reserve is
managed by Nature Seychelles, a not-for-profit organisation for environmental
conservation, which is also celebrating 20 years of existence. Nature
Seychelles is the island nation’s partner of BirdLife International.
BirdLife International is a
global partnership of conservation organisations that strives to conserve
birds, their habitats and global biodiversity, working with people towards
sustainability in the use of natural resources.
At one time there were only 26
individuals of this bird left in the world found only on Cousin.
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