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The unspoiled, largely unvisited Aldabra Atoll in the Indian Ocean is one destination on a 17-night itinerary aboard the line's latest vessel, the 120-passenger Silver Discoverer.
The white-throated rail colonized the Aldabra Atoll in the Indian Ocean and evolved to become flightless, before being completely wiped out when the island disappeared below the sea around 136,000 ...
Despite sea level rise in Western Indian Ocean, more than 60% of Aldabra Atoll's shoreline remained unchanged from 1960 to 2011, based on aerial and satellite image analysis. On average, the ...
Aldabra's raised atoll shoreline: From 1960 to 2011, 24% of the shoreline changed at a rate of 25 cm/ yr, the lagoon shoreline changed at 32 cm/yr and the ocean shoreline changed at 15 cm/yr.
The Seychelles’ Aldabra Atoll is one of the only places in the western Indian Ocean that still has a healthy population of the crabs, which are the largest arthropods in the world.
Chromosome-level genome assembly for the Aldabra giant tortoise enables insights into the genetic health of a threatened population. GigaScience, 2022; 11 DOI: 10.1093/gigascience/giac090 ...
Seychelles: $7,200 Consultant services to advise on the eradication of feral goats in Aldabra Atoll and equipment Peru - $35,400 Financial support for the implementation of the management plan for ...
“Aldabra is a low-lying Atoll and it will disappear if the present trends of global warming are not controlled. Also, it will add to the long list of human-caused extinctions, rather than a ...
Photographer Thomas Peschak worked on Aldabra atoll in 2008, so he had a pretty good idea what he was in for when he started prepping for his recent National Geographic assignment. “The climate ...