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Middle Camp – Seasonal South East Monitoring

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The first week of August marked our second seasonal monitoring camp of the south east monitoring season. Myself, William (Aldabra Science Coordinator), Rona (Assistant Aldabra Science Coordinator), Clarisha (Ranger), Angela (Trainee Ranger) and Norisha (Health and Safety Assistant) were dropped off at Middle Camp (Malabar) early morning on the 1st August – leaving Picard at around 7am and arriving at MC at around 8am. Usually William Skippers the boat (Frigate) and we keep it with us for the duration of the camp, but there have been some issues with the boat engines recently and Frigate was out of commission having work done on the engine for most of the week. The decision was made that Frigate would be trialled back in the water again with Zegret (our other small boat) also making the journey as back up support. For this reason Francis (Island Manager) and Yannick (Technician/Mechanic) Skippered Frigate and Zegret, leaving us at MC and collecting us again in the morning of the 4th...
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DJL Seasonal South East Monitoring Camp

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Last week we went on our first monitoring camp of the south east monitoring season here on Aldabra. Our camp took place at Dune Jean-Louis (DJL), between 12/07/2026 – 15/07/2026, a total of three nights and four days of monitoring. The camp team included myself (Field Research Officer), William (Aldabra Science Coordinator), Rona (Assistant Aldabra Science Coordinator), Clarisha (Ranger), Angela (Trainee Ranger) and Norisha (Health and Safety Officer/helping hand to make up our numbers for the camp). Across the entire camp we carried out reptile transect surveys, land crab transect surveys, arthropod monitoring (deploying malaise traps x 3 , pitfall traps x 6 and carrying out beating x 3 sites), landscape evolution (taking photos at specific sites to monitor changes in landscape across seasons and years, and we also started the brand new mangrove fauna monitoring and soil ecology monitoring (Soil testing (3 replicates at two different habitats – Grassland (GRS) and Open Mixed Scru...
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