{"id":7183,"date":"2010-02-01T02:08:52","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T02:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/fregate-island-seychelles\/"},"modified":"2010-02-01T02:08:52","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T02:08:52","slug":"fregate-island-seychelles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/islands\/fregate-island-seychelles.php","title":{"rendered":"Fregate Island Seychelles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2424\" href=\"http:\/\/www.privateislandsblog.com\/2010\/01\/30\/fregate-island-seychelles\/galapagos_wideweb__470x3300\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2424\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/8d9ce_galapagos_wideweb__470x3300-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"galapagos_wideweb__470x3300\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a>The Seychelles off the coast of Africa is magical place, beautiful scenery, combined with almost prehistoric flora and fauna make this a popular tourist destination. I recently came across an aritlce in the Financial times that highlights the magic and luxuriousness of&nbsp; the Seychelles. The author discovers how at great expense Fregate island is being returned to&nbsp;it&rsquo;s prstine state.&nbsp; Here is a segment from the article.<\/p><p>On much of Fr&eacute;gate, a grand reversal is well on its way. Dogs and cats have been banished; rats, at huge expense, were exterminated. As Steve takes me across the island, there is so much to see: he points at a massive, ancient Banyan tree, high up on a cliff, the sea winds having carved its somewhat sheared-off shape. I cannot count but hundreds of thousands of terns are noisily settling in. There are more than 600 giant tortoises now, eating and reproducing. A tourist can &ldquo;adopt&rdquo; a baby, watch it grow. We come across the remains of a coconut plantation. &ldquo;What do you hear?&rdquo; Steve asks. I strain to listen. Nothing. Sea birds refuse to nest there. Only silence.<\/p><p>To read the full article visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/2\/eb50805c-0c63-11df-a941-00144feabdc0.html\">Financial Times<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Seychelles off the coast of Africa is magical place, beautiful scenery, combined with almost prehistoric flora and fauna make this a popular tourist destination. I recently came across an aritlce in the Financial times that highlights the magic and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/islands\/fregate-island-seychelles.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islands"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}