Yan Coquet comforting an Aldabra giant tortoise on Cousin Island, a nature reserve island managed by Nature Seychelles, a national environmental NGO.
In a shady patch along a pristine white beach on Mahe Island, a radio spits out reggae and snapper sizzles on the barbecue, as Seychelloise Nareen tops up her rum and Coke on time off from her job aboard a luxury yacht.
Her family is spending the weekend at the beach where a couple dipping their feet into the turquoise waters off in the distance are the only foreign tourists in sight.
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Gallery: Nature is prized above mass tourism in Seychelles
Yan Coquet comforting an Aldabra giant tortoise on Cousin Island, a nature reserve island managed by Nature Seychelles, a national environmental NGO.
A picture taken on November 20,2019, shows White-tailed tropicbirds on Cousin Island, a nature reserve island managed by Nature Seychelles, national environmental NGO, Seychelles. - The Seychelles, a byword for luxury holidays and Instagram-perfect beaches, lives off tourism. But the idyllic honeymoon abode is confronting a tug-of-war over how to keep the economy growing, while protecting its fragile ecosystem. High-end tourism, mainly from Europe, helped pull the Seychelles from the brink of financial ruin after the 2008 economic crisis. Visitor numbers doubled in the decade that followed to around 360,000 today. (Photo by Yasuyoshi CHIBA/ AFP)
A French couple having their honeymoon pictures taken on a granite rock in Silhouette Island, the third largest island, Seychelles. — Photos: AFP
Tourists, walking on the beach with granite rocks, in Silhouette Island.
Yan Coquet, the programme coordinator of a conservation boot camp, swimming in the clear waters in Cousin Island.
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