Plastic waste from India, Sri Lanka and Indonesia is overwhelming the islands of Seychelles
The Aldabra island, a Unesco world heritage site, has its coastline strewn with plastic trash that were generated in places far away.
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The Aldabra island, a Unesco world heritage site, has its coastline strewn with plastic trash that were generated in places far away.
By (Noam Vogt-Vincent and April Burt, University of Oxford) More than 1,000km southwest of Mahé, the main inhabited island in Seychelles, lies a ring of coral islands called the Aldabra...
Plastic debris is strewn across Aldabra’s coastlines, threatening nearby marine ecosystems
, Updated 16 Dec 2020, 12:07 GMT Granite rock formations and Coconut Palms give the Seychelles islands their idyllic aesthetic. Photograph by NORBERT WU/ MINDEN PICTURES Is this the Indian Ocean’s most adventurous natural playground? Few contenders can compete with Seychelles’ array of tropical flora and fauna in such a spectacular setting, over 50% of which is protected by national parks and marine reserves. With an outer halo of coral atolls, the islands at the heart of the archipelago are the world’s only mid-oceanic islands comprised of granitic rock, which blushes rose pink in the...