Posted on September 14, 2018 by Yonature
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The island of Mauritius was formed approximately 10 million years ago by volcanic eruption. In fact, the island itself is a volcano. The highest point, 550 m – 600 m above sea level, is the central plateau; from there on, the land gently slopes Read More
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Posted on September 14, 2018 by Yonature
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The first thing to note here is that there is a difference between the words climate and weather. While people use these two words interchangeably, they, in fact, mean different things. Weather refers to atmospheric conditions over short periods of time, from daily to Read More
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Posted on August 27, 2018 by Yonature
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Although small in size, Mauritius has an impressive figure of marine algae. Scientifically named as seaweed, they are photosynthetic organisms that can be as small as bacteria or as big as plants. They are the greenish to brownish leaves that wash up the shore Read More
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Posted on August 22, 2018 by Yonature
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As one drives around the beautiful island of Mauritius, brightly coloured gentle slopes and deep valleys can be observed. These features are carved on the volcanic rocks that created the island. Magma from deep inside the Earth’s crust welled up and outpoured the thick Read More
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Posted on June 5, 2018 by Yonature
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Mauritius is located in the South West Indian Ocean Basin. The Indian Ocean itself started to expand during the splitting of Gondwana some 140 million years ago but was fully formed and filled to what it is now some 36 million years ago. It Read More
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Posted on June 1, 2018 by Yonature
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Wetlands are those areas that are near constantly moist. They play a very important role in the environment; for example, they help in water absorption and trapping of harmful substances. Regretfully though, wetlands all over the world are disappearing and Mauritius is no exception. Read More
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Posted on May 14, 2018 by Yonature
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Mauritius has a freshwater system arising from the central plateau and moving towards the sides of the island. Obviously, this is due to the upper regions receiving more rainfall than the lower lying areas. The mean annual rainfall is 4200 mm on the highlands Read More
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Posted on May 10, 2018 by Yonature
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The marine environment relates to all physical and biological interaction that occurs between the sea and the land at the highest watermark. It includes the oceans, seas, bays, estuaries, lagoons, deep sea, oceanic trenches and ridges. In simple terms, the marine environment starts right Read More
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Posted on May 9, 2018 by Yonature
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Wetlands are places that are permanently or seasonally filled with freshwater, saltwater or a mixture of these two. As such, wetlands include areas such as marshes, ponds, borders of rivers and lakes and deltas. Though they are often neglected in environmental conservation programmes, including Read More
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Posted on May 9, 2018 by Yonature
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What is a mangrove? Duke, 1992, defined a mangrove as a “tree, shrub, palm or ground fern, generally exceeding more than half a meter in height, and which normally grows above mean sea level in the intertidal zones of marine coastal environments or estuarine Read More
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