The three hotels on Praslin participating in the National Beach Monitoring Programme partnership with the Ministry of Environment has recently started their monitoring exercises.

Assisted by officials from the Ministry of Environment’s Coastal Zone Management Unit and from the ministry’s head office on Praslin, the hotel employees who took part in the training workshop set up their beach monitoring sites by taking their first beach profile measurements.

The hotels namely Lemuria Resort, Marechiaro and the Berjaya Praslin Beach will now be responsible to carry out the same exercise every 2-3 months, while the Ministry of Environment will, in the meantime, be in regular contact with the employees responsible to get updates on the state of the beaches.

Lemuria Resort will be taking four profile measurements, two on the Grand Anse Kerlan beach, one on Petit Anse Kerlan and one at Anse Georgette. As for Marechiaro the staff will taking a profile measurement on Grand Anse beach at St. Joseph and finally Berjaya Praslin will be taking one profile measurement at Anse Volbert.

Other beaches on Praslin such as Anse Lazio where three profile measurements are being taken will be covered by the Ministry of Environment’s office on Praslin.

As the programme is primarily a partnership with the hotel industry, the Ministry of Environment is still welcoming other hotels in Seychelles to join the programme so that they can contribute towards the coverage of as many beaches as possible in Seychelles. The contact persons for more details on the programme are Mr Alain De Comarmond and  Mr Rodney Quatre of the Ministry of Environment.

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