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					<title>Green groups oppose Qatari luxury resort near pristine world heritage site</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/green-groups-oppose-qatari-luxury-resort-near-pristine-world-heritage-site/</link>
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					<pubDate>03 Jun 2025 13:20:41 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Malavika Vyawahare]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rebecca Kessler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Indian Ocean, and Seychelles]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation, Environment, Infrastructure, Islands, Tourism, Turtles And Tortoises, UNESCO World Heritage Site, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Construction has begun for a luxury resort on Seychelles’ Assomption Island, near a UNESCO World Heritage coral atoll that’s one of the most remote and pristine places on the planet. Assomption (also spelled Assumption) is the gateway to Aldabra Atoll, home to the famous Aldabra giant tortoises (Aldabrachelys gigantea) that can live for more than [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Construction has begun for a luxury resort on Seychelles’ Assomption Island, near a UNESCO World Heritage coral atoll that’s one of the most remote and pristine places on the planet. Assomption (also spelled Assumption) is the gateway to Aldabra Atoll, home to the famous Aldabra giant tortoises (Aldabrachelys gigantea) that can live for more than 100 years. Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) migrate to the waters around these islands between July and November to give birth, and green turtles (Chelonia mydas) nest on the beaches. Seychelles’ only known dugongs (Dugong dugon) are residents of Aldabra’s lagoon and its coastal waters. The project, backed by Qatar-based real estate development firm Assets Group, will entail constructing a resort complex comprising 37 villas and four restaurants, and enlarging the existing airstrip on Assomption. It threatens the entire cluster of islands and atolls (Aldabra, Assomption, Cosmoledo and Astove — known collectively as the Aldabra Group), according to activists. “There is a high biosecurity risk,” Victoria Duthil, a Seychellois youth activist and campaigner for Friends of Aldabra, who is currently studying in Australia, told Mongabay. “Invasive species could completely devastate Albabra’s ecosystem. Just because of its isolation, it&#8217;s been this one functioning system that&#8217;s been kept as pristine as possible.” Groups that oppose the resort have come together under the banner of Friends of Aldabra. The campaign is animated by Overstories, a PR agency that focuses on environmental issues, where Duthil works as social media manager. Other environmental organizations that oppose the resort include Greenpeace Africa,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/green-groups-oppose-qatari-luxury-resort-near-pristine-world-heritage-site/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Seychelles becomes first country to comply with fisheries transparency standard</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/04/seychelles-becomes-first-country-to-comply-with-fisheries-transparency-standard/</link>
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					<pubDate>14 Apr 2025 11:39:25 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Malavika Vyawahare]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rebecca Kessler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, and Seychelles]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation, Environment, Fish, Fisheries, Fishing, International Trade, Oceans, Sustainability, and Sustainable Development]]>
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							<![CDATA[In February, Seychelles became the first country to comply with an international standard that aims to make governments’ management of their fisheries more transparent. The goal of the Fisheries Transparency Initiative (FiTI) standard is to improve oversight and public accountability. Seychelles, with an exclusive economic zone of 1.37 million square kilometers (500,000 square miles), has an [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In February, Seychelles became the first country to comply with an international standard that aims to make governments’ management of their fisheries more transparent. The goal of the Fisheries Transparency Initiative (FiTI) standard is to improve oversight and public accountability. Seychelles, with an exclusive economic zone of 1.37 million square kilometers (500,000 square miles), has an economy built on tourism and fisheries, including a thriving tuna fishery. The FiTI framework, through its 12 requirements, lays down what information about a country’s fisheries sector public authorities should publish online. This includes fisheries-related regulations, deals that give foreign actors access to a country’s fisheries resources, employment statistics, and information about beneficial owners of businesses in the sector. “We&#8217;re very good at providing statistics on the catch, the revenue is well accounted for, fisheries legislation and policy are all available,” Philippe Michaud, chair of the National Multi-Stakeholder Group tasked with implementing FiTI in Seychelles, told Mongabay. “We are a little bit lacking in information on employment and perhaps even labor standards. We need to improve on that. The information on beneficial ownership is available but not necessarily public,” said Michaud, who is also a consultant to the Seychellois fisheries ministry. In Port Victoria Seychelles, a stevedore prepares tuna to be lifted off of a vessel via net and crane. Image by UN Women/Ryan Brown via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). Opacity makes sustainable management of a country’s fisheries resources challenging. It can conceal overfishing, poor labor standards and lopsided agreements that privilege foreign actors at&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/04/seychelles-becomes-first-country-to-comply-with-fisheries-transparency-standard/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-297522</doi>				</item>
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					<title>To get people thinking about seagrass, Seychelles coins new Creole words</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/04/to-get-people-thinking-about-seagrass-seychelles-coins-new-creole-words/</link>
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					<pubDate>22 Apr 2022 13:12:58 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Elizabeth Claire Alberts]]>
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						<![CDATA[Elizabethalberts]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[africa]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, and Seychelles]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Coastal Ecosystems, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Ecosystems, Environment, Fish, Islands, Language, Marine, Marine Conservation, Oceans, Seagrass, and Solutions]]>
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							<![CDATA[Gomon. In Seychellois Creole, this has generally been the word to refer to anything “green and slimy,” says biologist and marine turtle expert Jeanne Mortimer. “You have gomon in the cracks between tiles in your bathroom; you have gomon in the rainforest growing on trees,” she told Mongabay. The word has even been used to [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Gomon. In Seychellois Creole, this has generally been the word to refer to anything “green and slimy,” says biologist and marine turtle expert Jeanne Mortimer. “You have gomon in the cracks between tiles in your bathroom; you have gomon in the rainforest growing on trees,” she told Mongabay. The word has even been used to describe seagrass, marine plants that grow in the seabed along the coast. In Seychelles, an archipelago with about 460 square kilometers (178 square miles) of land across 115 islands, seagrass plays an essential role in preventing surging seas from eroding the coastline. Seagrass meadows also perform other ecosystem services like sequestering carbon and providing habitat for species like turtles and dugongs. In 2021, the Seychelles Conservation and Climate Adaptation Trust (SeyCCAT) launched a campaign to raise awareness about seagrass and the importance of conserving it. Part of this project focused on looking for new names for seagrasses in the local Creole language. “The naming of the seagrass was important because how can you value something that you don&#8217;t have a decent name for?” Mortimer said. “It’s not to say that nobody had a name [for seagrass] because the fishermen have names. But most people were not that tuned into it. And most people would not know, for example, the difference between seagrass and algae. So we wanted to clear up that misunderstanding and make people aware of what the difference is.” SeyCCAT worked with members of the public and fishers, linguists, and scientists to come&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/04/to-get-people-thinking-about-seagrass-seychelles-coins-new-creole-words/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-255065</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Seychelles embraces transparency in fisheries, but gaps in data and action remain</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/02/seychelles-embraces-transparency-in-fisheries-but-gaps-in-data-and-action-remain/</link>
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					<pubDate>11 Feb 2022 15:25:55 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Elizabeth Claire Alberts]]>
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						<![CDATA[Malavikavyawahare]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[africa]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, Indian Ocean, and Seychelles]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation, Environment, Environmental Law, Environmental Policy, Fish, Fisheries, Fishing, Food Industry, Governance, Industry, International Trade, Marine, Marine Conservation, Oceans, Overfishing, Politics, and Saltwater Fish]]>
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							<![CDATA[With hooks, nets and lines, industrial fishing vessels stream into the waters around the Seychelles every year, looking for a fish known as “blue gold”: tuna. The most sought-after tuna is the yellowfin tuna, but fishers also catch big-eye tuna, skipjack tuna, and swordfish. The fishing industry fortifies the Seychelles’ economy. In 2019, the small [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[With hooks, nets and lines, industrial fishing vessels stream into the waters around the Seychelles every year, looking for a fish known as “blue gold”: tuna. The most sought-after tuna is the yellowfin tuna, but fishers also catch big-eye tuna, skipjack tuna, and swordfish. The fishing industry fortifies the Seychelles’ economy. In 2019, the small East African archipelago nation exported about 6,600 metric tons of fish and crustaceans, which brought more than $13 million into the country, according to a local news report. Fisheries is the second most important sector after tourism in the Seychelles, contributing to 20% of the GDP and employing 17% of the population, according to the World Bank. Yet conservationists have long been sounding the alarm that fish stocks, particularly yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares), are overharvested. In an effort to address overfishing, the Seychelles made a decision in 2017 to join the Fisheries Transparency Initiative (FiTI), an enterprise born out of global discussions about how to deal with illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing in the waters around Africa, particularly by commercial fleets operated by foreign nations. While FiTI is still in its infancy, the initiative has set an ambitious goal of making fisheries more transparent and sustainable. The Seychelles was one of the first countries to join, along with the northwest African nation of Mauritania. Philippe Michaud, a consultant at the Seychelles’ ministry of fisheries, said the country joined FiTI because doing so aligned with the government’s implementation of the “Blue Economy,” a national initiative&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/02/seychelles-embraces-transparency-in-fisheries-but-gaps-in-data-and-action-remain/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-252623</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Bleached reefs still support nutritious fish, study finds</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/01/bleached-reefs-still-support-nutritious-fish-study-finds/</link>
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					<pubDate>21 Jan 2022 08:05:32 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rebecca Kessler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, Indian Ocean, and Seychelles]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Conservation, Coral Bleaching, Coral Reefs, Ecology, Ecosystems, Environment, Fish, Fisheries, Fishing, Food, Food Industry, food security, Global Environmental Crisis, Impact Of Climate Change, Indigenous Peoples, Marine, Marine Animals, Ocean Warming, Oceans, Research, and Saltwater Fish]]>
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							<![CDATA[Escalating ocean temperatures stemming from climate change are devastating the world’s tropical coral reefs. In response to the stress, corals, which are animals, sometimes unceremoniously jettison the algae that live within them. That expulsion drains the color from the reefs in what’s known as bleaching. In the severest cases, it can kill the coral, which [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Escalating ocean temperatures stemming from climate change are devastating the world’s tropical coral reefs. In response to the stress, corals, which are animals, sometimes unceremoniously jettison the algae that live within them. That expulsion drains the color from the reefs in what’s known as bleaching. In the severest cases, it can kill the coral, which need the algae to provide them with nutrients, oxygen and waste management. At the same time, millions of people in the tropics eat fish that live on these reefs. And today, the widespread bleaching of tropical reefs, which is expected to continue as the Earth heats up, has thrown into question how those fisheries and the communities that depend on them for sustenance will respond. Now, a new study published Jan. 6 in the journal One Earth has found that in certain circumstances, critical nutrients for human development found in reef fishes remain available even after mass bleaching has occurred. &#8220;An important message here is that climate-impacted reefs can still provide some important ecosystem services, and therefore should still be considered in management plans and conservation,” said Camille Mellin, a quantitative ecologist at the University of Adelaide in Australia, who was not involved in the study. A recovering coral reef in Seychelles. Image by Nick Graham/Lancaster University. James Robinson, the study’s lead author and an ecologist and research fellow at Lancaster University in the U.K., said the 1998 bleaching of coral reefs in Seychelles, an island nation in the Indian Ocean off the eastern coast&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/01/bleached-reefs-still-support-nutritious-fish-study-finds/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-251878</doi>				</item>
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					<title>European tuna boats dump fishing debris in Seychelles waters ‘with impunity’</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/04/european-tuna-boats-dump-fishing-debris-in-seychelles-waters-with-impunity/</link>
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					<pubDate>09 Apr 2021 12:52:04 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Malavika Vyawahare]]>
						</dc:creator>
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						<![CDATA[Malavikavyawahare]]>
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							<![CDATA[Who controls Indian Ocean tuna?]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Indian Ocean, and Seychelles]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Coral Reefs, Ecosystems, Endangered Species, Fish, Fisheries, Fishing, International Trade, Islands, Marine, Oceans, Pollution, Tuna, and Water Pollution]]>
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							<![CDATA[In 2019, when Jeremy Raguain turned up for a cleanup campaign on Aldabra Atoll, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, he bagged a marine monstrosity like no other: a beached fish aggregating device, or FAD. It was a massive tangle of buoys, netting and fishing ropes weighing hundreds of kilograms. The fishing aid, like most FADs, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In 2019, when Jeremy Raguain turned up for a cleanup campaign on Aldabra Atoll, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, he bagged a marine monstrosity like no other: a beached fish aggregating device, or FAD. It was a massive tangle of buoys, netting and fishing ropes weighing hundreds of kilograms. The fishing aid, like most FADs, was made of a floating raft and an underwater trail.  More than 80% of the plastic garbage washed up on the Indian Ocean atoll, home to Seychelles&#8217; iconic giant tortoises, is fishing-related, Raguain, a Seychellois marine conservationist, and his team estimated. Vessels from Spain and France have for decades exploited Seychelles’ abundant tuna stock and left waste behind in its waters. &#8220;It&#8217;s not to say that they&#8217;re the sole culprits. But they are by far the largest,&#8221; said Raguain, who co-led the cleanup effort on Aldabra. Purse seine tuna-fishing vessels release thousands of FADs into the seas every year, abandoning many of them there. When forsaken FADs drift ashore, it falls on volunteers and environmentalists like Raguain to clean up after industrial fishing fleets. He and five team members spent an entire day under the scorching Seychellois sun dismantling that one monster FAD. Jeremy Raguain, left, and Kalsey Belle, who took part in the 2019 cleaning drive on Aldabra, taking apart a beached FAD. Image Courtesy of April Burt. &#8220;Aldabra is covered in trash because there&#8217;s a massive tuna fishing industry in the region, many of which are big EU companies that are exporting all&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/04/european-tuna-boats-dump-fishing-debris-in-seychelles-waters-with-impunity/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-241459</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Red flag: Predatory European ships help push Indian Ocean tuna to the brink</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/04/red-flag-predatory-european-ships-help-push-indian-ocean-tuna-to-the-brink/</link>
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					<pubDate>08 Apr 2021 17:16:16 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Malavika Vyawahare]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Malavikavyawahare]]>
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							<![CDATA[Investigation and Who controls Indian Ocean tuna?]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Indian Ocean, and Seychelles]]>
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							<![CDATA[Fish, Fisheries, Fishing, International Trade, Mongabay investigation, Oceans, Overfishing, Sustainability, Sustainable Development, and Tuna]]>
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							<![CDATA[Until Jan 9, 2014, the Playa de Anzoras, a 2,200-ton tuna fishing vessel named for a beach in Spain, built in Spain and owned by Spaniards, sailed under the Spanish flag. On Jan. 10, it dropped the Spanish flag in favor of that of Seychelles, a small archipelagic nation in the Indian Ocean. Neither Spain nor continental [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Until Jan 9, 2014, the Playa de Anzoras, a 2,200-ton tuna fishing vessel named for a beach in Spain, built in Spain and owned by Spaniards, sailed under the Spanish flag. On Jan. 10, it dropped the Spanish flag in favor of that of Seychelles, a small archipelagic nation in the Indian Ocean. Neither Spain nor continental Europe share a coast with the Indian Ocean, where Playa de Anzoras operates. Yet the European Union dominates tuna fisheries here and profits the most from it. This dominance is, in part, explained by ships like the Playa de Anzoras, which is flagged to Seychelles but ultimately controlled by European companies, according to records reviewed by Mongabay. EU-controlled ships have pulled in the lion&#8217;s share of the region’s valuable yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) for more than three decades. Now, the stock is teetering on the verge of collapse. A plan to stop overfishing and restore it has failed. This March, talks on the issue ended in a stalemate. The EU wants other members of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC), the intergovernmental agency charged with managing tuna fisheries in the region, to be subject to greater restrictions, while some observers point to the EU’s own failure to play by the rules and save a stock that it profits so greatly from. The Indian Ocean is ringed by developing countries, many of which have only in the last century gained independence from European colonial rule. Some see EU states’ grip over resources like tuna as the persistence of an exploitative relationship.&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/04/red-flag-predatory-european-ships-help-push-indian-ocean-tuna-to-the-brink/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Flip-flops, fishing gear pile up at Aldabra, a UNESCO World Heritage Site</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/09/flip-flops-fishing-gear-pile-up-at-aldabra-a-unesco-world-heritage-site/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/09/flip-flops-fishing-gear-pile-up-at-aldabra-a-unesco-world-heritage-site/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>23 Sep 2020 06:47:59 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Malavika Vyawahare]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Malavikavyawahare]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Indian Ocean, and Seychelles]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Conservation, Coral Reefs, Ecosystems, Environment, Fisheries, Global Environmental Crisis, Islands, Marine, Marine Protected Areas, Oceans, Plastic, UNESCO World Heritage Site, and Waste]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Aldabra coral atoll is a place of mythical beauty, uninhabited and so lost to the world that chartered flights and boats are the only way to get there. But humans have still found a way to leave their mark. Flip-flops from all over the planet are piling up on the atoll. During a five-week [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Aldabra coral atoll. Image courtesy of Foto Natura. The Aldabra coral atoll is a place of mythical beauty, uninhabited and so lost to the world that chartered flights and boats are the only way to get there. But humans have still found a way to leave their mark. Flip-flops from all over the planet are piling up on the atoll. During a five-week cleanup campaign in 2019, volunteers removed 60,000 plastic slippers. An estimated 370,200 are still strewn on Aldabra&#8217;s four islands that enclose a vast lagoon. &#8220;That was one of the biggest shocks when we actually started cleaning the beaches and the coastline,&#8221; said April Burt, a marine biologist at the University of Oxford who led the efforts. &#8220;[Y]ou get these big piles, meters high, of just flip flops.&#8221; Lockdowns and border closures have not affected the traffic of trash that rides ocean currents to reach this sunny sector of the southwest Indian Ocean. Aldabra is one of 155 isles that make up Seychelles, a small island nation with fewer than a million people that is facing a big plastic waste problem. According to research published by Burt and her team in Scientific Reports recently, the atoll has more plastic trash per square meter than any other island. Spanning 155 square kilometers (60 square miles), Aldabra is the second-largest atoll in the world; the lagoon itself is more than three times the size of Manhattan. With the clear blue lagoon on one side of the raised coral rim and&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/09/flip-flops-fishing-gear-pile-up-at-aldabra-a-unesco-world-heritage-site/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-235066</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Seychelles extends protection to marine area twice the size of Great Britain</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/03/seychelles-extends-protection-to-marine-area-twice-the-size-of-great-britain/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/03/seychelles-extends-protection-to-marine-area-twice-the-size-of-great-britain/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>30 Mar 2020 12:21:54 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Malavika Vyawahare]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Malavikavyawahare]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[africa]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Indian Ocean, and Seychelles]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Conservation, Ecosystems, Ecotourism, Fisheries, Fishing, Marine, Marine Conservation, Marine Protected Areas, Oceans, Sea Turtles, Tourism, and Turtles And Tortoises]]>
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							<![CDATA[Seychelles, an archipelago in the Indian Ocean famous for its turquoise waters, giant tortoises and wondrous birds, has extended protection to 400,000 square kilometers (154,000 square miles) of its seas, an area twice the size of Great Britain. The move fulfills the country’s long-standing pledge to safeguard 30% of its marine waters. “Seychelles’ marine ecosystem [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Seychelles, an archipelago in the Indian Ocean famous for its turquoise waters, giant tortoises and wondrous birds, has extended protection to 400,000 square kilometers (154,000 square miles) of its seas, an area twice the size of Great Britain. The move fulfills the country’s long-standing pledge to safeguard 30% of its marine waters. “Seychelles’ marine ecosystem is the foundation that the economy is built upon, with fisheries and tourism being the primary pillars of our economy,” President Danny Faure said on March 26 at the signing of a decree that created 13 new marine protected areas (MPAs). “The people of Seychelles have a direct dependence on our ocean resources for food security and livelihoods.” The terrestrial area of the Seychelles’ 115 islands is only about 460 km2 (180 mi2), about three times the size of Staten Island in New York City, but the country’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) spans 1.37 million km2 of ocean, twice the size of Texas. The challenge for the country is to prevent the unsustainable exploitation of its biodiversity, which it projects as its biggest selling point to the world. Image courtesy The Ocean Agency The declaration of new MPAs was facilitated by a “debt-for-nature” deal proposed by the U.S.-based NGO The Nature Conservancy (TNC). The scheme came on the back of the 2008 financial crisis, when the Seychelles government was unable to pay back its foreign creditors, defaulting on its sovereign debt. Debt restructuring aims at avoiding default by changing the terms of repayment. The agreement&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/03/seychelles-extends-protection-to-marine-area-twice-the-size-of-great-britain/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-228410</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Altered fish communities persist long after reefs bleach, study finds</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/06/altered-fish-communities-persist-long-after-reefs-bleach-study-finds/</link>
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					<pubDate>28 Jun 2019 12:18:53 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Indian Ocean, and Seychelles]]>
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							<![CDATA[Adaptation To Climate Change, Animals, Biodiversity, Biodiversity Hotspots, Climate Change, Conservation, Coral Bleaching, Coral Reefs, Ecology, Ecosystems, Environment, Fish, Fisheries, Fishing, Global Environmental Crisis, Impact Of Climate Change, Marine, Marine Animals, Marine Conservation, Marine Protected Areas, Natural Capital, Oceans, Parks, Protected Areas, Research, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[2163-3717]]>
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							<![CDATA[The bleaching of coral reefs could permanently change the composition of the fish communities that inhabit them, a new study has found. The research, published online June 18 in the journal Global Change Biology, traced changes in the mix of species on reefs in Seychelles back to coral bleaching caused by spiking ocean temperatures in [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The bleaching of coral reefs could permanently change the composition of the fish communities that inhabit them, a new study has found. The research, published online June 18 in the journal Global Change Biology, traced changes in the mix of species on reefs in Seychelles back to coral bleaching caused by spiking ocean temperatures in 1998. For reasons that scientists are still puzzling out, higher water temperatures sometimes cause corals to evict their symbiotic algae tenants, draining the reef of its color and often leading to the widespread death of the corals themselves. In the study, bleached reefs had fewer predators such as snappers and groupers and more plant-eating fish such as parrotfish and rabbitfish, ecologist James Robinson and his colleagues found. Parrotfish school on a reef in Seychelles. Image by Nick Graham/Lancaster University. “Other reefs have reported recovery of fish communities within 10 years, so we really didn’t expect Seychelles fish to get stuck in these new states,” Robinson, the study’s lead author and a senior research associate at Lancaster University in the U.K., said in an email. Reefs with fish communities that bounced back to their earlier compositions — like the Great Barrier Reef, for example — are often protected and thus don’t have to deal with the compounding stress of human pressures like fishing, Robinson said. The team’s study drew on a series of species surveys on coral reefs in Seychelles between 1994 and 2017. Analysis of that data revealed that when corals were able to mount&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/06/altered-fish-communities-persist-long-after-reefs-bleach-study-finds/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Report highlights secretive business dealings of Indonesian VP hopeful</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/04/report-highlights-secretive-business-dealings-of-indonesian-vp-hopeful/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/04/report-highlights-secretive-business-dealings-of-indonesian-vp-hopeful/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>09 Apr 2019 08:23:07 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Indonesia, Seychelles, Singapore, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Coal, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporations, Corruption, Energy, Environment, Environmental Law, Governance, and Politics]]>
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							<![CDATA[2019CSTF, G-1801-55636]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — A new report links two of Indonesia’s most prominent political figures, including a vice presidential candidate, with mysterious offshore financial transactions related to coal companies they owned. The report, from the international anti-corruption NGO Global Witness, suggests that businessmen and politicians Sandiaga Uno and Luhut Pandjaitan both may have taken advantage of corporate [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — A new report links two of Indonesia’s most prominent political figures, including a vice presidential candidate, with mysterious offshore financial transactions related to coal companies they owned. The report, from the international anti-corruption NGO Global Witness, suggests that businessmen and politicians Sandiaga Uno and Luhut Pandjaitan both may have taken advantage of corporate secrecy techniques that obscured ownership of companies and flows of millions of dollars in cash — techniques the Indonesian government has tried to stamp out as part of its effort to improve governance and tax collection in the country. The allegations touch the highest levels of Indonesian politics as a two-horse race for the nation’s presidency enters its final phase. Sandiaga is running for vice president in the April 17 election on a ticket led by former military general Prabowo Subianto. Luhut, himself a former general, is the current maritime coordinating minister and one of President Joko Widodo’s closest advisers. President Joko Widodo, left, and his running mate, Ma’ruf Amin. They face Prabowo Subianto, second right, and Sandiaga Uno in the April 17 presidential election. Image courtesy of the Indonesian Cabinet Secretariat. While there is no evidence that Luhut or Sandiaga have engaged in any illegal activity, the issues raised in the report are at the heart of a global financial system that has allowed the tools of corporate secrecy, which can facilitate corruption, tax dodging and conflicts of interest, to spread unchecked. The Indonesian government has tried to crack down on the use of&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/04/report-highlights-secretive-business-dealings-of-indonesian-vp-hopeful/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-217249</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Deadly parrot virus found in native birds from Asia and Africa</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/12/deadly-parrot-virus-found-in-native-birds-from-asia-and-africa/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/12/deadly-parrot-virus-found-in-native-birds-from-asia-and-africa/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>05 Dec 2018 05:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Erin I. Garcia de Jesus]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Wild Bird Trade]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Atlantic Forest, Bangladesh, Japan, Nigeria, Pakistan, Senegal, Seychelles, and Vietnam]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Birds, Conservation, Diseases, Endangered Species, Environment, Invasive Species, Pet Trade, Pets, Wildlife, Wildlife Trade, Wildlife Trafficking, and Zoonotic Diseases]]>
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							<![CDATA[Parrots around the globe are captured and sold as pets in a thriving illegal market that has carried more than 19 million birds across borders since 1975. The deadly beak and feather disease virus (BFDV) – which destroys parrot immune systems and causes feather loss and beak defects – can spread worldwide through this lucrative [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Parrots around the globe are captured and sold as pets in a thriving illegal market that has carried more than 19 million birds across borders since 1975. The deadly beak and feather disease virus (BFDV) – which destroys parrot immune systems and causes feather loss and beak defects – can spread worldwide through this lucrative pet trade. Now, a recent study published in Conservation Biology has documented BFDV in eight new countries in Asia and Africa. The discovery points to grave risks for native species if infected captives escape, especially in isolated populations, researchers say. BFDV infects captive parrots worldwide and spreads easily among species. However, scientists had a poor grasp of its prevalence in wild populations. Previous studies mostly screened parrots in South Africa, the U.S., or Australia. Other regions with parrots, such as Africa, Asia, and South America, have not received the same scrutiny. “There is definitely a risk of spillover of BFVD from captive birds into wild populations,” said conservation biologist Deborah Fogell of the University of Kent, U.K., lead author of the study. &#8220;A single infected individual that is accidentally or intentionally released can pose a threat.&#8221; BFDV-infected Timneh Grey parrots seized from the parrot trade in Senegal. Photo courtesy of Roman Martin/World Parrot Trust To help assess the spread of BFDV, Fogell and her colleagues collected blood, feather, and tissue samples from wild and captive parrots in 13 countries. They sampled five species, including the invasive Rose-ringed parakeet (Psittacula krameri), and searched for a telltale&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/12/deadly-parrot-virus-found-in-native-birds-from-asia-and-africa/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-212996</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Seychelles home to new species of caecilian, a legless amphibian</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2017/10/seychelles-home-to-new-species-of-caecilian-a-legless-amphibian/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2017/10/seychelles-home-to-new-species-of-caecilian-a-legless-amphibian/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>19 Oct 2017 02:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Atlantic Forest, Indian Ocean, and Seychelles]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Amphibians, Animals, Biodiversity, Conservation, Deforestation, Diseases, Ecology, Endangered Species, Environment, Evolution, Extinction, Frogs, Global Environmental Crisis, Habitat Degradation, Habitat Loss, Islands, Mass Extinction, Research, Saving Species From Extinction, Solutions, Species, Species Discovery, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[A team of scientists from Seychelles, the United States and the United Kingdom has found a new caecilian, perhaps the smallest species of the legless amphibian on Earth. &#8220;As soon as I saw it I knew it was a new species,” Simon Maddock, a conservation biologist at the University of Wolverhampton, said in a statement. [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A team of scientists from Seychelles, the United States and the United Kingdom has found a new caecilian, perhaps the smallest species of the legless amphibian on Earth. &#8220;As soon as I saw it I knew it was a new species,” Simon Maddock, a conservation biologist at the University of Wolverhampton, said in a statement. “[It] is a very exciting discovery and I was delighted to be able to formally describe it and present it to the world.” Biologist Simon Maddock led the team that discovered the new species in Seychelles. Photo courtesy of Simon Maddock / University of Wolverhampton. Maddock and his colleagues discovered what they’re calling the Petite Praslin caecilian (Hypogeophis pti), named for the island of Praslin in the Seychelles where they found it in 2013 and 2014. They reported their findings Oct. 6 in the journal Zootaxa. The species has a longer snout than other Seychellois caecilians. Caecilians also have two sensory organs on their heads not found in other amphibians called tentacles. The Petite Praslin caecilian’s tentacles are nearer to the animal’s eyes than its nostrils, differentiating it from a close relative. The new species also has fewer vertebrae than any caecilian known to science, and it’s short, topping out at 120 millimeters (4.72 inches) in length. The archipelago in the Indian Ocean is home to six other species of caecilian, and scientists figure they’ve been evolving there independently, along with a family of frogs called Sooglossidae, for 64 million years. Still, that doesn’t mean the snake-like amphibians are easy to&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2017/10/seychelles-home-to-new-species-of-caecilian-a-legless-amphibian/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Next big idea in forest conservation? Applying genomics to conservation issues</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2014/02/next-big-idea-in-forest-conservation-applying-genomics-to-conservation-issues/</link>
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					<pubDate>21 Feb 2014 06:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Dr Liz Kimbrough]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
					</author>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Seychelles]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Botany, Conservation, Ecology, Environment, Forests, Green, Innovation, Interviews, Plants, Rainforests, and Tropical Forests]]>
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											<description>
							<![CDATA[Innovation in Tropical Forest Conservation: Q&#038;A with Dr. Jaboury Ghazoul Tropical rainforest in Sumatra. Jaboury Ghazoul uses his expertise in plant ecology to address societal issues ranging from climate change adaptation to food production. He is excited about the use of genomics&#8211; the study of hereditary information passed down through an organism’s genetic code&#8211;for conservation. [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Innovation in Tropical Forest Conservation: Q&#038;A with Dr. Jaboury Ghazoul Tropical rainforest in Sumatra. Jaboury Ghazoul uses his expertise in plant ecology to address societal issues ranging from climate change adaptation to food production. He is excited about the use of genomics&#8211; the study of hereditary information passed down through an organism’s genetic code&#8211;for conservation. And genomics are certainly a hot topic in modern ecology. “We do not yet really understand how rapidly and effectively species might be able to respond to rapid environmental change,” Ghazoul told mongabay.com, “responses to changing environments have many implications for community resilience to change, and for conservation and habitat management and restoration.” Ghazoul strongly believes in the value of placing ecological ideas within wider societal contexts, a view that has been shaped by work in Vietnam, Thailand, India and Scotland. His main research interests are pollination ecology, plant reproduction, ecosystem services in agroforestry systems and, more generally, conservation ecology of tropical trees in landscape mosaics. Jaboury Ghazoul served as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Biotropica from 2006 to 2013, and a member of the Executive Board of the Association of Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) for the same duration. Currently he is a Professor of Ecosystem Management at Swiss Federal Institute of technology, Zurich, a position he has held since October, 2005. An Interview with Dr. Jaboury Ghazoul Mongabay.com: What is your background? Jaboury Ghazoul: I was born in Iraq though my early life was split fairly equally between Iraq and the UK. At the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2014/02/next-big-idea-in-forest-conservation-applying-genomics-to-conservation-issues/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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