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  2. Pravind Jugnauth - Wikipedia

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    He created a National Agricultural Biotechnology Institute and Food Technology Laboratory in Mauritius and later launched the Small Planters Welfare Fund. The fund caters to the welfare of planters and their families and provides crop insurance schemes designed to financially support planters whose crops are affected by unfavourable weather ...

  3. Illovo Deal - Wikipedia

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    Pravind Jugnauth also explained that by 2004 the Illovo Deal had enabled 43 000 small planters and employees of the ailing sugar industry to buy 7,000 arpents at Rs 125 000 per arpent via the Sugar Investment Trust (SIT). These small planters also own 24.5% of Mon-Trésor-Mon-Désert (MTMD). Furthermore, the SIT and the National Pension Fund ...

  4. Bikramsingh Ramlallah - Wikipedia

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    Long Mountain, British Mauritius. Died. 13 September 2000. (2000-09-13) (aged 85) Mauritius. Political party. Parti Travailliste. Bikramsingh Ramlallah (1915-2000), also known as Beekrumsingh Ramlallah, Beekrum Ramlallah, or Vikram Ramlallah, was a Mauritian school teacher, social worker, activist, journalist, politician and minister.

  5. Mauritian Wildlife Foundation - Wikipedia

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    The logo of the Mauritian Wildlife Foundation is the Mauritius kestrel. The Mauritian Wildlife Foundation (MWF) is an independent, non-governmental, non-profit conservation agency working in Mauritius and the Outer Islands to save threatened endemic local flora and fauna. The MWF is currently working to conserve the following species: Pink pigeon.

  6. Wildlife of Mauritius - Wikipedia

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    The wildlife of Mauritius consists of its flora and fauna. Mauritius is located in the Indian Ocean to the east of Madagascar. Due to its isolation, it has a relatively low diversity of wildlife; however, a high proportion of these are endemic species occurring nowhere else in the world. Many of these are now threatened with extinction because ...

  7. History of Mauritius - Wikipedia

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    Mauritius was later rediscovered and visited by the Portuguese between 1507 and 1513. Mauritius and surrounding islands were known as the Mascarene Islands (Ilhas Mascarenhas) after Pedro Mascarenhas. Portuguese discoveries 1415–1543 in the Reign of D. João III (verde) An official world map by Diogo Ribeiro described "from west to east, the ...

  8. Mauritius - Wikipedia

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    Mauritius, [a] officially the Republic of Mauritius, [b] is an island country in the Indian Ocean, about 2,000 kilometres (1,100 nautical miles) off the southeastern coast of East Africa, east of Madagascar. It includes the main island (also called Mauritius), as well as Rodrigues, Agaléga, and St. Brandon (Cargados Carajos shoals).

  9. List of mammals of Mauritius - Wikipedia

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    The order Cetacea includes whales, dolphins and porpoises. They are the mammals most fully adapted to aquatic life with a spindle-shaped nearly hairless body, protected by a thick layer of blubber, and forelimbs and tail modified to provide propulsion underwater. Suborder: Mysticeti. Family: Balaenopteridae.

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