Although the Arabs were to place the island on the marine chart in the middle of the 12th century, under the name Dina Moghrabin (Island of the Occident), Portuguese navigator Pedro de Mascarenhas disembarked in 1513, giving his name to the Mascarene Islands. The island’s history is close...
1c. For safety, fishermen rarely operated outside the atoll rim; so, most capture locations are concentrated along the western perimeter of the atoll inside the lagoon, especially near the shallow entrance to the lagoon where turtles (but not boats) can pass at high tide. The daytime ...
Anecdotal information indicates that salt marshes and tidal flats are prevalent in almost all the countries on the Indian Ocean rim. However, this region has received very little attention compared to the stretch and potential that coastal habitats can offer to mitigate climate change. The present ...