BBC News
21 Jan 2022
Moyenne Island is a 24 acre small island, off the north coast of Mahé, Seychelles in the Indian Ocean.
From 1915 until the 1960s, the island was abandoned until its purchase by Brendon Grimshaw for about 10,000 dollars. He was a former newspaper editor, originally from England.
He found a native, Rene Lafortin. Together with Rene, Brendon began to equip his new home. While René came to the island only occasionally, Brendon lived on it for decades, never leaving.
For 39 years, Grimshaw and Lafortin planted 6 thousand trees with their own hands and built almost 5 kms of nature paths. In 2007, Rene Lafortin died, and Brendon was left all alone on the island.
He attracted 2000 new bird species to the island and introduced more than a hundred giant tortoises, which in the rest of the world (including the Seychelles) were already on the verge of extinction. Thanks to Grimshaw's efforts, the once deserted island now hosts two-thirds of the Seychelles' fauna. An abandoned piece of land has turned into a real paradise.
In 2008, the island was declared a national park.
Grimshaw was the only inhabitant of the island until his death in July 2012.
Currently the island is a National Park and can be visited as part of organized trips.
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220119-moyenne-island-the-worlds-smallest-national-park
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