VICTORIA, Seychelles — Sixteen young learners have been selected to attend the 2025 D’Arros Experience. The group comprises nine boys and seven girls representing 10 different schools across Seychelles. Their submissions were part of the widest spectrum of applications yet, with poems, videos, essays and artworks sent in as responses to this year’s competition theme, ‘If the Ocean Was A Person, How Would it Present or Describe Itself?’
The SOSF D’Arros Research Centre has been in operation for over 13 years, conducting monitoring and conservation research to keep tabs on the phenomenal marine biodiversity at D’Arros Island and St Joseph Atoll. The D’Arros Experience is its youth-oriented programme that is designed to be jam-packed with presentations about ecosystems and endangered species, field excursions, snorkelling trips, and hands-on conservation efforts such as beach clean-ups.
Selected participants will spend a week immersed in the research centre’s activities, learning directly from resident marine biologists, conservation officers and visiting scientists. The Save Our Seas Foundation, which funds the programme, said the experience is designed to inspire a new generation of Seychellois ocean advocates and to equip them with the knowledge and skills to contribute to the country’s marine protection efforts. Alumni of the D’Arros Experience have gone on to careers in marine science, environmental policy and education, with several now studying at universities abroad.
