Seychelles to have new research station on Aldabra Atoll and “Aldabra House” on Mahe

The Seychelles Islands Foundation (SIF) will undertake the construction of the Aldabra House at Providence and rebuild the research station on the Aldabra Atoll in the coming months to improve its services.

The Royal Society, one of the oldest scientific societies in the world and also the United Kingdom’s National Academy of Sciences, built the Aldabra research station during the colonial era, and work was completed in June 1971. The station is administered today by the SIF, a non-profit charitable organisation established as a public trust by the government of Seychelles in 1979.

SIF manages and protects Seychelles’ two UNESCO World Heritage Sites – the Aldabra Atoll and the Vallee de Mai Reserve on Praslin Island – the second most populated island.

The chairperson of the SIF board of trustees, Bernard Georges, told reporters, “There is a need to rebuild the station as there has been erosion at the site, and we now have to move the building.”