Media Coverage

Public education and awareness, bringing to the broader public attention the important work that Denis Island is supporting, is an important part of GIF’s work on the island. The overall approach is formalised in the “Outreach Programme” of the island’s Environmental Management Plan 2008-2012. Denis has recently received coverage on both the national television channel SBC and in the “Nation” newspaper.

The TV coverage has now been posted on “You Tube” and can be viewed on the following links:

Denis Island Conservation Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXCg5g2nB4Q

Denis Island Conservation Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSDfwFJQOY4

Denis Island Conservation Part 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ExQD5udL8s

Denis Island Conservation Part 4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV0VNkzSPeE


Meanwhile the Nation of December 22nd carried a GIF-submitted article on the recent and ground breaking introduction of a population of the critically endangered Seychelles paradise flycatcher (Terpsiphone corvina). Never before translocated this marks an historic moment in the conservation of the species.

Simply click on the image below to read the full article.