Category Archives: Conservation Diary

Apr
04
2013

The cackling Fairy Terns

It is a great time of the year when the wind is low and the seas calm! All you can hear are the cackling Fairy Tern’s and the waves crashing throughout the day. The heat is at its maximum some days, but the birds are thriving and the sea is very inviting! We have just [...]

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Feb
23
2013

Squeaker returns

We were delighted and surprised to find Squeaker (Cousine’s hand raised Fruit Bat in 2011) munching away at giant a soursop fruit right outside the conservation office this week. We heard his familiar calls and recognised his naughty face! We were convinced when we heard him shouting at the tele-handler and dumpers which were obviously [...]

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Feb
12
2013

Turtle update

It has been a great Hawksbill nesting season so far! Lots of hard work bringing great results and satisfaction that we are enabling a Critically Endangered species a better chance of survival into the future. During the month of January there were a total of 55 individual emergences, 29 successful nests and 4949 eggs recorded. Furthermore another [...]

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Jan
17
2013

A New year and a great year behind us!

Another successful year complete on Cousine which we are very proud to look back on. We reached our conservation goals set out at the beginning of the year and are excited to start our new list and push a few more exciting projects on the island. A few highlights of 2012 were: A record number [...]

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Nov
27
2012

The turtles have kept us so busy!

It is that time of the year again and our nesting Hawksbill and Green Turtles have been keeping us really busy! Just to give you an example, two days ago we had six turtles on the beach at the same time at different stages of nesting. With our intense monitoring and management of  turtles on [...]

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