Vashist SeegobinUniversity of Mauritius | UoM · Department of Biosciences
Vashist Seegobin
BSc (Hons) Biology
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Introduction
Part time MPhil/PhD student at the University of Mauritius. My research seeks to explore the foraging ecology of threatened island flying foxes in their native habitat. Using the Endangered Mauritian flying fox as model species, I investigate the influence of invasive alien animals and plants on the foraging ecology of the bat to generate information for effective conservation management measures that may help alleviate worsening human-wildlife conflict centered on the Mauritian flying fox.
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Publications (13)
Human-wildlife conflicts (HWC) arising from fruit bats eating commercial fruits is a worsening problem worldwide epitomized by the Mauritian flying fox (Pteropus niger), a species threatened with extinction and repeatedly mass-culled since 2015. Culling has contributed in halving flying foxes' population and failed to improve commercial fruit produ...
Oil spill incidents occur during shipping and contaminate the water body and form oil sludge over the sea and along the coast. The spill affects severely the seagrass, coral reefs, aquaculture, etc. in the marine environment and impacts the economy of the areas. We studied the oil spill of Wakashio tanker, that occurred off Mauritius, Indian Ocean...
Human–wildlife conflicts (HWC) arising from fruit bats eating commercial fruits is a worsening problem worldwide and is epitomized by the Mauritian flying fox (Pteropus niger), a species threatened with extinction yet repeatedly mass-culled since 2015. Non-lethal solutions for dealing with this HWC are needed, which are rooted in the evidence avail...
Oil spills from tanker ships provide adverse and irreversible impacts of a pollutant over coastal and marine environments. Using Sentinel-1 and 2 satellite images, this baseline paper presents the detection, assessment, and monitoring of the aground and further oil spill from the Wakashio ship of August 06, 2020, on the Mauritius coast. The oil spi...
Mauritius native forests have been reduced twenty-fold since human colonisation in 1638 and the remaining fragments are highly invaded by alien species. Alien plants are known to lower the survival, growth and reproduction of native trees while invasive animals like the long-tailed macaque compete with the Mauritian flying fox (Pteropus niger) for...
An Oil Spill Index (OSI = (B3+B4)/B2) was developed and applied to Sentinel-2 optical satellite data of the European Space Agency (ESA) to map marine oil spills using spectral absorption characters of spectral bands of the Sentinel-2. The potential application of OSI and derived indices [i. (5+6)/7, (3+4)/2, (11+12)/8 and ii. 3/2, (3+4)/2, (6+7)/5]...
Oil spill incidents contaminate water bodies, and damage the coastal and marine environment including coral reefs and mangroves, and therefore, monitoring the oil spills is highly important. This study discriminates the Wakashio oil spill, which occurred off Mauritius, located in the Indian Ocean on August 06, 2020 using the Sentinel-1 and 2 data a...
The recent observation of a pair of Mauritius Fody Foudia rubra (Aves : Ploceidae) on the coast of Pointe d´Esny deserves particular monitoring. Given the start of the nesting period, we proposed an active search of the species breeding codes.
Flying foxes play keystone ecological roles in plant reproduction. Yet, they face numerous threats, including persecution for eating commercial fruits. This human-wildlife conflict has recently escalated to culling campaigns of a threatened flying fox on Mauritius. Finding non-lethal solutions to this human-wildlife conflict on the island is theref...
Résumé : A l’occasion d’une « sortie limicoles », organisée à Terre Rouge, nous avons eu l’occasion d’observer la plus petite Sterne du monde, la Sterne de Saunders, Sternula saundersi, au milieu d’un groupe de Sterne pierregarin, Sterna hirundo. Cette note retrace les détails de l’observation et donne les critères de détermination de l’espèce conc...
Résumé : A l’occasion d’une « sortie limicoles », organisée à Terre Rouge, nous avons eu l’occasion d’observer la plus petite Sterne du monde, la Sterne de Saunders, Sternula saundersi, au milieu d’un groupe de Sterne pierregarin, Sterna hirundo.
Abstract : On the occasion of a "migratory bird watching session", organised in Terre Rouge, we had t...
Résumé : A l’occasion d’une « sortie limicoles », organisée à Terre Rouge, nous avons eu l’occasion d’observer la plus petite Sterne du monde, la Sterne de Saunders, Sternula saundersi, au milieu d’un groupe de Sterne pierregarin, Sterna hirundo. Cette note retrace les détails de l’observation et donne les critères de détermination de l’espèce conc...
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The aim of this research is to investigate the extent to which native forests with different level of alien plant invasion differ in foraging habitat quality for the Mauritian flying fox, so as to better gauge the possible role that forest restoration may have in mitigating the currently worsening human-wildlife conflict involving fruit growers and fruit bats.
