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Exploration Conservation Education


Discover our Marine Discovery Centre at Lagoon Attitude!
Come and meet our team of marine biologists who are ready to share interesting information and useful advice with you.

The Marine Discovery Centre is dedicated to exploring and preserving the marine and coastal environment. Its aim is to educate and raise awareness among all sea users and local communities.

The Marine Discovery Centre was launched in 2010 in collaboration with a local NGO and is funded by the Attitude Foundation.


What can you do in the Marine Discovery Centre?

Meet the team

Partnerships

To address the environmental challenges we are facing, we promote both local and regional collaborations. We signed 5 partnership agreements to study and help preserve humpback whales, sea turtles, and blue carbon ecosystems (mangroves and seagrasses).

Created in 2001, Globice is an NGO dedicated to research on and conservation of cetaceans in Reunion Island and the Indian Ocean.

COMBAVA project: In 2021, for the first time in Mauritius, we deployed a hydrophone to record the songs of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae), with the objective to improve the knowledge this species in our region and strengthen the skills of local stakeholders.

CEDTM (Centre d’Etude et de Découverte des Tortues Marines) is an NGO in Reunion Island working on research programmes on sea turtles and their habitats.

Kélonia is an observatory, a museum, and a centre for research, intervention and care dedicated to sea turtles in Reunion Island.


TImOI project: In 2021, our team was trained by CEDTM and Kélonia in how to collect samples on hawksbill turtles for genetic and isotopic analysis. The aim is to learn more about their life cycle and contribute to their protection.

TORSOOI: A photo identification software used to build a database of the sea turtle populations in Mauritius with the objective of enhancing local knowledge and capacity building.

WCS is a New York based NGO. Its goal is to conserve the world's largest wild places in 14 priority regions, the Western Indian Ocean region being one of them.

QWIO project: a scientific assessment of underwater noise from shipping and maritime services and its effects on large cetaceans, sharks, and sea turtles in the Western Indian Ocean. The aim is to raise awareness about how we locally can help reduce this noise and protect humpback whales and other species around Mauritius.

The first oceanarium in Mauritius, a hub for learning and exchanging on the ocean.

Project: raise awareness of the role and importance of blue carbon ecosystems (mangroves, seagrasses). The aim is to improve the marine biodiversity of blue carbon ecosystems in Mauritius.

Contact the Marine Discovery Centre

If you have any questions, want to visit or make a booking, please pop into the Marine Discovery Centre or contact us.

+230 204 88 00 Call us
marinediscoverycentre@lagoonattitude.com Write us

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