On Environment Day, 5 June, the Minister for Environment, Energy and Climate Change announces that Seychelles MSP has achieved the second Milestone of the award-winning debt conversion.

Seychelles has designated 26 percent of its territorial waters as marine protection areas to complete the second phase of the debt for conservation finance deal with The Nature Conservancy, the environment minister said on Wednesday.  The announcement was made by Wallace Cosgrow, the Minister of Environment, Energy and Climate Change, in his message for the World Environment Day on June 5. With the new designation, which is a product of the Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) process, Seychelles’ protected area is now 350,915 square kilometres of the island nation’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of 1.4 million square kilometres.

Seychelles News Agency – read article here

The Nature Conservancy – read Press Release here

Seychelles MSP – marine zones gazetted for Milestone 2. Implementation and management will begin in 2021 when the marine spatial plan is completed.