This announcement was made during the first World Wetlands Week in January 31, under the theme ‘Wetlands connects life and culture’.

The event was organized by the Ramsar Convention, which is an intergovernmental treaty committed towards the conservation and sustainability use of wetlands and its resources.

This now brings the total of dedicated Ramsar sites in Seychelles to three, the other being Port Launay which was declared in 2005.

Seychelles is now hoping to add La Plaine Hollandaise, Vallée de Mai and Anse Lazio to its list of protected wetlands areas.