Estate Living Magazine The Slow Movement - Issue 39 March 2019 | Page 32

P R O P E R T Y
Grants and loans will be provided
through the Blue Grants Fund and
Blue Investment Fund, managed
respectively by (SeyCCAT) Seychelles
Conservation and the Climate
Adaptation Trust (SeyCCAT) and the
Development Bank of Seychelles
(DBS).
Seychelles is an archipelagic nation
consisting of 115 granite and coral
islands. It has a land area of 455 square
kilometres spread across an exclusive
economic zone of approximately 1.4
million square kilometres. As one of
the world’s biodiversity hotspots,
Seychelles is balancing the need
to both develop economically and
to protect its natural resources and
environmental integrity.
Marine resources are critical to the
country’s economic growth. After
tourism, the fisheries sector is the
country’s most important industry,
contributing significantly to annual
GDP and employing 17% of the
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