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Seychelles Sea Turtle Festival in Mahe
Seychelles Sea Turtle Festival is an annual conservation-education event organised by the NGO Sea Turtle Friends Seychelles since 2013, rotating between island venues such as La Digue and Silhouette. Built around school assemblies, talks and hands-on activities, it teaches children about hawksbill and green turtle nesting on Seychelles' beaches, with past editions themed around direct climate action for sea turtles.
Seychelles' granite and coralline islands host some of the Indian Ocean's most important nesting grounds for hawksbill turtles, and increasingly for green turtles, with beaches on La Digue, Silhouette, Praslin and the outer atolls attracting monitoring programmes run by conservation groups and resort partners for decades.