From Nine to Noon 1 December 2014
Kennedy Warnes talks in general about the Seychelles – where they are, what they are, how they're a popular European holiday destination, but not really on New Zealanders' holiday radar.
D'Arros Island (in distance) and St Joseph Atoll, in the Amirantes group of the Seychelles.
Walking the vast shallow lagoon of St Joseph to a shark-catching site.
Swiss shark researcher Ornella Weideli lifts a juvenile lemon shark from the net. It will be given an acoustic tag and tracked as it grows in the lagoon.
Ornella Weideli puts a baby blacktip reef shark into "tonic immobility" by turning it upside down. This action puts sharks into the equivalent of a trance.
"Petit Four", the largest resident giant tortoise on D'Arros.
Turtle researchers watch a hawksbill turtle that has just laid its cluth of eggs on D'Arros.
On Cousine Island, conservation managers excavate a nest and relocate a clutch of eggs to a safer site.
Ghost crabs are a threat to turtle nests. They can dig down and eat the entire clutch of eggs - 200 or so.
A clutch of tutle eggs is relocated to a hand-dug nest surrounded with crab-proof netting on Cousine Island.
Julie Gane and Iain Olivier, conservation managers on privately-owned Cousine Island.
Fairy terns do not make nests. They lay their eggs on tree branches, and the eggs and chicks are prone to falling off. On Cousine the chicks are placed in a small "boat" to make them more secure.
On many islands, fairy terns are an alarm clock, starting up a loud conservation long before dawn.
Seychelles millipedes are giants of their kind.
With their long tail plumes, tropic birds are one of the beauties of the Seychelles seabird fauna.
Several Seychelles islands, including Cousine, have herds of giant tortoises.
La Digue, a popular tourist destination, is renowned for its range of fruits. A stall offers drinks and fruit.
A reddish yellow coconut known as coco rouge grows on La Digue and makes a sweet, refreshing drink.
Bibi makes up a platter of soursop, star fruit, custard apple, mango and other tropic delights.
Many Seychelles islands are granitic, and the landscape is peppered with fluted, weathered granite slabs.
A ride through the La Digue forest to the beach.
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