Despite sea level rise in the Western Indian Ocean, more than 60% of Aldabra Atoll's shoreline remained unchanged from 1960 to 2011, based on aerial and satellite image analysis. On average, the ...

Green turtle numbers continue to rise on a group of islands where the species has now been protected for more than 50 years, new research shows. Turtles were hunted at Aldabra Atoll in the Seychelles ...

A team from Plastic Odyssey and Unesco have carried out a mission to map plastic waste, test removal methods and establish monitoring protocols on the Aldabra Atoll in the Seychelles. It is one of 51 ...

UNESCO is aware of concerns raised by the Friends of Aldabra, youth, and a petition by individuals regarding the construction of a luxury hotel on Assomption Island, 27 km from the Aldabra Atoll World ...

When photographer Thomas P. Peschak was working on a story about the amazingly biodiverse Seychelles, an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, he went to special lengths to take the perfectly creepy photo ...

Flightless birds living on a group of isolated coral islands went totally extinct more than 100,000 years ago. Now, flightless birds once again live there, having re-evolved from the same ancestral ...

They can live for more than 100 years and weigh up to 250 kilograms -- Aldabra giant tortoises. Researchers have now decoded the genome of Aldabrachelys gigantea, one of only two remaining giant ...

The Seychelles' remote atoll of Aldabra has been listed as an Important Marine Mammal Area (IMMA) alongside other areas which are key habitats for various threatened species, said the Seychelles ...

Despite sea level rise in Western Indian Ocean, more than 60% of Aldabra Atoll's shoreline remained unchanged from 1960 to 2011, based on aerial and satellite image analysis. On average, the shoreline ...