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NEWS (January 2009)

General

Population recovery starts for the Seychelles sheath-tailed bat (December 2008)

Silhouette island to be made a National Park

New monographs published (2006-8)

 

Tortoises

The latest Tortoise News (2008)

Tortoises released on Silhouette island (2006)

First hatchings of Seychelles giant tortoises and Seychelles terrapin (2002-3)

Tortoises in publications (2005)

Amphibians

A new species of frog (2000)

Bats

Seychelles sheath-tailed bat ranked number 25 in the Zoological Society of London's Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered mammals (2007)

Giant tortoises in recent publications

 The Seychelles giant tortoises have been the subject of much publicity in recent months: