iL-Forests

Country Profiles & Fact Sheets

• EarthDay.org

Reports

• NATIONAL FORESTRY POLICY (2006)

• Annual Report - 2018
• Annual Report - 2016
• Annual Report - 2009
• Annual Report - 2008
• National Report to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)
• Awards won by Forestry Service
• Mon Vert Nature Walk - Brochure Pamphlet
• The Forest and Reserves Act 41 of 1983
• List of Indigenous plants

NPCS Series

• NPCS Fauna
• MPCS Flora
• NPCS Islets and Offshore Unit
• NPCS Unit/Park Management Unit
• NPCS Black River Gorges Bel Ombre Nomination Dossier
• UNESCO Biosphere - Black River Gorges- Bel Ombre

Research Publications

2021

• Forests Without Frugivores and Frugivores Without Forests – An Investigation Into the Causes of a Paradox in One of the Last Archipelagos Colonized by Humans, Albert Sébastien , Flores Olivier , Ah-Peng Claudine , Strasberg Dominique, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Volume 9

• First assessment of anthropogenic marine debris in mangrove forests of Mauritius, a small oceanic island, Seeruttun, Linisha Devi, Phanesh Raghbor, and Chandani Appadoo, Marine Pollution Bulletin, 164, p.112019

2018

• Valuing visitor access to forested areas and exploring willingness to pay for forest conservation and restoration finance: The case of small island developing state of Mauritius, Pricila Iranah, Pankaj Lal, Bernabas T. Wolde, Pralhad Burli, Journal of Environmental Management, Volume 223, Pages 868-877, ISSN 0301-4797

2017

• Assessing temporal couplings in social–ecological island systems: historical deforestation and soil loss on Mauritius (Indian Ocean), S.J. Norder, A.C. Seijmonsbergen, Soonil D.D.V. Rughooputh, E.E. van Loon, V. Tatayah, A.T. Kamminga, K.F. Rijsdijk, Ecology and Society, Vol. 22, No. 1(16 pages)

• Sietze Norder, Arie Christoffel Seijmonsbergen, Soonil Rughooputh, Emiel van Loon, Vikash Tatayah, Timo Kamminga, and Kenneth F. Rijsdijk, Population growth and deforestation on Mauritius since human colonization.  Ecology and Society 22(1):29, March 2017

• Mauritius on Fire, William D. Gosling, Jona de Kruif, Sietze J. Norder, Erik J. de Boer, Henry Hooghiemstra, Kenneth F. Rijsdijk and Crystal N. H. McMichael, Biotropica, Vol. 49, No. 6 (NOVEMBER 2017), pp. 778-783 (6 pages) Published By: Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation

2013  

• Invasive alien plants elicit reduced production of flowers and fruits in various native forest species on the tropical island of Mauritius (Mascarenes, Indian Ocean), Monty, ML Fabiola, FB Vincent Florens, and Cláudia Baider, Tropical Conservation Science 6(1), pp.35-49

2012  

• Surviving 370 years of human impact: what remains of tree diversity and structure of the lowland wet forests of oceanic island Mauritius?, Florens, FB Vincent, Cláudia Baider, Geneviève MN Martin, and Dominique Strasberg, Biodiversity and Conservation, 21, pp.2139-2167.

2009

• Rapid degradation of a Mauritian rainforest following 60 years of plant invasion, Virah-Sawmy, Malika, John Mauremootoo, Doreen Marie, Saoud Motala, and Jean-Claude Sevathian, Oryx, 43(4), pp.599-607.

2008

• Seed dispersal and establishment of endangered plants on oceanic islands: the Janzen-Connell model, and the use of ecological analogues, Hansen, Dennis M., Christopher N. Kaiser, and Christine B. Müller, PLoS One, 3(5), p.e2111

2002

• International Forestry Review, Wilkie, Mette Løyche, C. M. Eckelmann, M. Laverdiere, and A. Mathias , Volume 4, Number 4, pp. 257-267