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At the end of 2004, Air Bourbon went into liquidation, which left travellers on the island without a flight home. 7000 customers failed to get a refund for their tickets. In August 2005, Brigitte Bardot wrote to the head of Réunion to complain about the "dogs as shark bait" scandal, which had caused a media storm.
Income from tourism is La Réunion's primary economic resource, ahead of sugarcane production and processing, which has allowed the development of large Réunionese groups such as Quartier Français, Groupe Bourbon ex-Sucreries Bourbon, a large international company now listed on the stock exchange, but based outside the island and which has ...
Contemporary photograph of the upper reaches of the Rivière des Remparts, where Jean Dugain almost caught chestnuts on denunciation. Jean Dugain's career as a professional slave bounty hunter began a few years after the beginning of a movement to tighten local regulations concerning runaway slaves, the maroons who disappeared in the highlands of the island, i.e. off the coast in the mountains.
2 dog bait should be removed. 4 comments. 3 Proposed Flag(s) 1 comment. 4 Ethnic Groups. 2 comments. 5 Extinct vs. Dormant. 1 comment. 6 Political status. 3 comments.
Réunion Island ornate day gecko, Phelsuma inexpectata, endemic Gold dust day gecko , Phelsuma laticauda , introduced from Madagascar Lined day gecko, Phelsuma lineata , introduced from Madagascar
La Possession (French pronunciation: [la pɔsesjɔ̃]) is a commune in the French overseas department of Réunion.It is located in the northwestern part of the island of Réunion, between the capital of Saint-Denis and the commune of Le Port.
Keiiti Aki, professor, seismologist, author and mentor; Edmond Albius, horticulturalist; Gilbert Aubry, Bishop of St-Denis; Joseph Bédier, academic and member of the Académie française (born in Paris to Réunionnais parents, raised on the island)
Saint-Pierre (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ pjɛʁ]; Reunionese Creole: Sin-Pyè) is the third-largest commune in the French overseas department and region of Réunion.Located on the southwest side of the island, it is the capital of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands.