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Eradication of Black Rats from Curieuse Island, Seychelles

Grantee Name: Indian Ocean Tortoise Alliance

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Location
Seychelles
Amount
$149,928
Dates
Nov 2023 – Nov 2025
Keywords
Awareness, Climate adaptation, Monitoring and evaluation, Protected Areas, Species Conservation, Ecosystem resilience, Invasive alien species
Eradicate all black rats (Rattus rattus) from Curieuse Island in Curieuse Marine National Park using an array of self-resetting traps, camera traps, a detector dog and thermal imaging drone in a dynamic rat-free mainland island approach, with associated monitoring, permanent biosecurity and significant educational component for park rangers and the local population.
Strategic Direction : 1 Empower communities and civil society to implement actions to improve the resilience of species, ecosystems, and human populations to climate change in priority KBAs

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