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This year's humpback whale season, now over, has been good. We've encountered a lot more mothers and calves than last year and in various spots; both in the north and on the west coast. There has a...

As part of our diversity study, we record turtle sightings around the island. In the last week of September, a skipper in Black River brought us a dead green turtle, a juvenile female. This is the ...

On Tuesday 30 July, the MMCS got a call from the Mauritian Wildlife Foundation (MWF) staff on Ile aux Aigrettes. A fur seal had shown up on the rocks at the Preskil Beach Resort, which is situated ...