Management plan for Aldabra
The Seychelles Islands Foundation (SIF) has recently embarked on renewing Aldabra’s management plan as part of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Protected Areas project.
It has been decided that a management plan for Aldabra is essential to ensure that the SIF has a clear long-term vision and management objectives.
Furthermore, it helps to define core site values such as the Aldabra giant tortoises or Aldabra’s pristine coral reefs and the threats posed such as poaching and coral bleaching.
The plan will recommend ways to strategically evaluate the state of Aldabra’s values and organisation and will decide when and how to take action. This plan is of importance for the well-being of Aldabra and the SIF and is a requirement of both the Seychelles government and the Unesco (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation) World Heritage Commission that protected areas have updated plans in place.
Andrew Hill, director of environmental company Range to Reef from Perth, Western Australia, was recruited in July 2014 as the lead consultant to develop the new Aldabra management plan.
Range to Reef has a wealth of experience in such a domain and has recently compiled management plans for Christmas Island, an isolated atoll with minimal human disturbance, and Ningaloo Reef, a Unesco world heritage site and marine protected area.
The management plan for Aldabra will be undertaken in three phases. The first phase involves the drafting of scoping documents, a literature review, and consultation with the SIF.
The second phase involves a site visit to Mahé and Aldabra, where Andrew Hill will consult further with key SIF staff, and develop a greater understanding of the site, and the management challenges and constraints. Andrew Hill will discuss the plan in depth with key Aldabra staff to ensure that it is practical to implement. The final document will be completed by the end of 2014.
“We are now in the first phase of the process. The scoping documents have been drafted, and several fruitful consultations between Andrew Hill and the SIF have put the management plan on the right track. We are looking forward to the completion of the new management plan to guide and sustain SIF’s efforts to ensure that Aldabra continues to receive the highest level of management and protection,” said the SIF.
Source: SIF
It has been decided that a management plan for Aldabra is essential to ensure that the SIF has a clear long-term vision and management objectives.
Furthermore, it helps to define core site values such as the Aldabra giant tortoises or Aldabra’s pristine coral reefs and the threats posed such as poaching and coral bleaching.
The plan will recommend ways to strategically evaluate the state of Aldabra’s values and organisation and will decide when and how to take action. This plan is of importance for the well-being of Aldabra and the SIF and is a requirement of both the Seychelles government and the Unesco (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation) World Heritage Commission that protected areas have updated plans in place.
Andrew Hill, director of environmental company Range to Reef from Perth, Western Australia, was recruited in July 2014 as the lead consultant to develop the new Aldabra management plan.
Range to Reef has a wealth of experience in such a domain and has recently compiled management plans for Christmas Island, an isolated atoll with minimal human disturbance, and Ningaloo Reef, a Unesco world heritage site and marine protected area.
The management plan for Aldabra will be undertaken in three phases. The first phase involves the drafting of scoping documents, a literature review, and consultation with the SIF.
The second phase involves a site visit to Mahé and Aldabra, where Andrew Hill will consult further with key SIF staff, and develop a greater understanding of the site, and the management challenges and constraints. Andrew Hill will discuss the plan in depth with key Aldabra staff to ensure that it is practical to implement. The final document will be completed by the end of 2014.
“We are now in the first phase of the process. The scoping documents have been drafted, and several fruitful consultations between Andrew Hill and the SIF have put the management plan on the right track. We are looking forward to the completion of the new management plan to guide and sustain SIF’s efforts to ensure that Aldabra continues to receive the highest level of management and protection,” said the SIF.
Source: SIF
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