Saving Mauritian species and restoring the islands they depend on
The Mauritian Wildlife Foundation is a Mauritian non-governmental organisation working exclusively on the conservation of the nation’s endangered plants and animals. Founded in 1984, it is best known for the recovery programmes that brought the Mauritius kestrel, the pink pigeon and the echo parakeet back from the edge of extinction, and for the ecological restoration of offshore islands including Île aux Aigrettes and Round Island.
Its field teams combine species recovery, native plant propagation, invasive-species control and habitat restoration with an education programme that brings school groups and visitors onto the restored islands. The Foundation works in partnership with the National Parks and Conservation Service, the Forestry Service and a number of international conservation organisations, and maintains long-running field stations in Mauritius and Rodrigues.
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Field monitoring of wild echo parakeet nest cavities through the Black River Gorges breeding season, with intervention where a brood is at risk.
Target: MUR 1,100,000
Weeding, propagating and replanting 4 hectares of coastal ebony forest on the restored islet off Mahebourg, and maintaining every seedling to canopy height.
Target: MUR 2,400,000
Two hundred and forty students came through the island education programme this term, from eleven schools across four districts. The reptile identification session is still the one they remember — several groups arrived already able to name the Telfair’s skink.
Teacher packs for the new term are ready, and we can take bookings for the next quarter.
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Early season count: 31 active cavities located so far, 19 of them with confirmed clutches. Two cavities near the ridge were taken over by introduced birds before the pair could lay, and both have been fitted with the modified entrance plates that worked last season.
The wet start has slowed access to the upper sites, so the second survey sweep moves to the following fortnight.
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The eastern plots are cleared. Three weeks of hand-weeding took out the exotic thicket across roughly 1.2 hectares without touching the ebony saplings already coming through underneath — there were more of those than the survey predicted, which is the best kind of surprise.
Nursery stock is ahead of schedule: 3,400 seedlings potted on and hardening off, against a target of 3,000 by the end of the quarter. Planting starts with the first reliable rain.
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