Planting hope, restoring faith: Nature Seychelles restores a degraded reef area the size of one and a half football fields |26 February 2026

Planting hope, restoring faith: Nature Seychelles restores a degraded reef area the size of one and a half football fields

Nature Seychelles is proud to announce a landmark milestone of its coral reef restoration programme, the Reef Rescuers: the successful revival of a full hectare of coral reef at the Cousin Island Special Reserve. This record-breaking achievement is a result of a dedicated four-year effort by Nature Seychelles under the regional project, ‘Restoring Marine Ecosystem Services by Restoring Coral Reefs to Meet a Changing Climate Future’, funded by the Adaptation Fund through UNDP and the government of Seychelles.

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