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General
Population recovery starts for the Seychelles sheath-tailed bat with a record populations recorded (December 2008 and December 2009)
Silhouette island to be made a National Park in 2010 and a planning application to build a road across the island was rejected in early 2009.
New monographs published (2006-10). NPTS research can be downloaded here - NPTS 2009 scientific report .
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 tortosies in recent publications
The Seychelles giant tortoises have been the subject of much publicity over the past 10 years:
The conservation project was described in International Zoo News 45(1) in February 1998.
The different species were described in detail in the journal of the Freshwater Turtle and Tortoise Specialist Group - Chelonian Conservation & Biology 3(1) in August 1998. The feeding behaviour of the tortoises is described in issue 3(3) of December 1999.
The histories of several of the giants are described in "Famous Tortoises" by J. Gerlach, published in October 1998 (available from the author at jstgerlach@aol.com).
"The Tortoise Who Thought He Was A Dodo" by R. Gerlach was published in 2001. This is a book for young children recounting the rediscovery of the giant tortoises (contact jstgerlach@aol.com)
The hatchling tortoises are described and a comparison with the Aldabra tortoise shows how remarkably distinctive they are in Radiata (August 2003) the journal of the DGHT-AG Schildkroten
All the scientific and historical records of the living and extinct giant tortoises of the Indian Ocean are compiled in 'Giant Tortoises of the Indian Ocean' by Justin Gerlach, published by Edition Chimaira..
The effect of diet on the tortoise carapace is analysed in African Journal of Herpetolology (2004, volume 53(1): 77-85).
The unique nose of Dipsochelys giant tortoises is described in the Herpetological Journal (2005, volume 15: 15-20).
Basking behaviour of Arnold's giant tortoises is described in Chelonian Conservation & Biology (2005, volume 4; 937-941)