Climate Change and extreme weather.

Climate change in the form of repeated severe droughts is having a profound effect on the moist and mist forests of the granitic islands. However, the real effects are still very much unknown as no attempt has been made to study and evaluate the ecological changes which are taking place in these places.

Unchecked collection and exploitation of target species such as Craterisperma Bwa doux still remain a real challenge that still needs to be tackled. The fewer, the smaller and the more restricted the populations get, the higher the probability for extinction.

If one should explore the established concept that plants are the basis of life and that the Seychelles has about 1000 endemic species and that most of these species are in one form or another dependent on the different endemic plant species, then it is easy to imagine what a catastrophic effect this would have on the biodiversity of these islands.