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Shoreline in the Seychelles Environmental pressures in the Seychelles, a group of granitic islands located in the Indian Ocean, are greatest on the coastal plain where over 80% of the country's flat land occurs. Marine and coastal ecosystems of the...

By Lawrence Hislop

Spectacular rock formations in the Seychelles The Seychelles is a community consisting of 115 islands over 1,3 million square kilometers of the western Indian Ocean. Smoothed granite rocks such as this one are dotted over the islands. The Granitic Seychelles have be...

By Lawrence Hislop

Spectacular patterns caused by erosion, Seychelles. Rocks along the coast have been weathered, leaving dramatic formations.

By Lawrence Hislop

Spectacular rock formations in the Seychelles Boulders such as this one along the coast have been worn away, leaving dramatic formations.

By Lawrence Hislop

Gangplank into the sea, Seychelles The Seychelles Islands' main economic activities are (understandably) tourism and fishing. Both of these industries depend on the continued health and sustainable management of the islands' coastal and marine ecosystems...

By Lawrence Hislop

Channels in the sand, Seychelles The idyllic Seychelles employ about 30% of the workforce in the tourism industry, which also generates approximately 70% of the country's hard currency. Development on the islands is concentrated on narrow coastal zones ...

By Lawrence Hislop

Litter on the beach, Seychelles The Republic of Seychelles comprises of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean, around 1,600km East of Africa. The Seychelles is home to two UNESCO World Heritage Sites and is famous for it's beautiful beaches for containing th...

By Lawrence Hislop

Protective stone wall, Seychelles Various attempts have been made to protect the Seychelles Islands from further erosion. A protective sea wall is considered a "hard" engineering solution. Several sea walls which protected developments in the Seychelles ...

By Lawrence Hislop

Protective stone wall on artificial island, Seychelles Parts of the shoreline in the Seychelles has been reclaimed from the sea, by coastal reclamation. These artificial islands, located around the capital Victoria, have been built to relieve the development pressure on hill...

By Lawrence Hislop

Protective stone wall by the roadside, Seychelles Climate change and sea level rise are shaping the Seychelles Islands in spectacular and dramatic ways. Clefts in the sand on the beaches and spectacular rock formations are some of the more aesthetically pleasing changes...

By Lawrence Hislop

Littered beach, Bali, Indonesia The term marine pollution relates to a range of threats to the marine environment including from land-based sources, oil spills, sewage, invasive species, marine litter, overfishing, destruction of coastal habitats, heav...

By Lawrence Hislop

By Lawrence Hislop

Mangroves in Bali Mangroves grow in saline coastal habitats and play an important ecological role. They have a specialized root system and reproductive cycle that mean that they can thrive in salt water. There are more than 30 species gro...

By Lawrence Hislop

Pollution is detroying the mangroves on coastal Bali Once their root system is established, Mangroves provide the perfect habitat for shrimps, lobsters and oysters. They also slow the water flow around the root area, improving coastal water quality, providing the necessary...

By Lawrence Hislop

Young mangrove plantation on coastal Bali Once their thin root system is established, mangroves provide for a wide variety of plant and animals. Algae and plankton are rife, providing the perfect habitat for shrimp, shellfish, crabs and fish, who feed off them. ...

By Lawrence Hislop

Drifting through a mangrove plantation in Bali Bali Clean & Green program is an initiative aimed at prioritizing Bali's environmental concerns, which have emerged as the tourism and industry sectors have grown in the region. This is to be achieved through the popula...

By Lawrence Hislop

Mangroves in Bali are a vital part of the coastal ecosystem An important function of mangrove forest is to hold back silt water that damages coral reefs. In extreme weather conditions, mangroves provide a physical barrier, absorbing and dissipating the energy from tsunami, flood ...

By Lawrence Hislop

Drifting through a mangrove plantation in Bali The variety of marine life which exists in and around mangroves provides many Indonesians with their livelihood, in fishing, gathering of crustaceans, to timber production. Unfortunately, mangroves here occupy coastal la...

By Lawrence Hislop

Pollution is detroying the mangroves on coastal Bali In Bali the mangroves are experiencing stress due to rising sea levels and a changing climate, or are being replaced by shrimp farms and repercussions of human development such as pollution and silt run-off. All of this ...

By Lawrence Hislop

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