Sustainability for Seychelles Undertakes Air Quality Monitoring Research
A Seychelles environmental NGO is undertaking an air quality monitoring project to gain a full picture of how good the island nation's air quality is and determine where action should be taken.
Sustainability for Seychelles (S4S), started the project two months ago adding the island nation to the list of 117 countries in the world monitoring their air quality.
The project's manager, Dr Laurent Sam, said, "At the beginning of November, clearly we did not have the best air in the world, but it's not a disaster either."
Air quality is measured with the Air Quality Index (AQI), which works like a thermometre from 0 to 500 degrees. Instead of showing changes in the temperature, it shows changes in the amount of pollution in the air – classified in colours.
The Environmental Performance Index (EPI) 2016 report said that Seychelles had the best quality of air on the planet, although this has gone down slightly.
"Even at a level that you can't see, or you don't smell the pollution is at a level that can cause long-term harm to your health," said Sam.
Source: Seychelles News Agency