Silhouette Island is beautiful and somewhat isolated island about an hour boat ride from Mahé. Although there are many coconut palms on the island, they are not native to the island and now are trying to be controlled in order to re-establish native plants. Water on all the islands is a problem and comes primarily from catch-water cisterns. Resorts here are very expensive and the few tourists are willing to pay dearly for the remoteness and the snorkeling off the coast where they may sees numerous varieties of fish and sea turtles. Silhouette is the 3rd largest of the central island.  Ninety-three percent of the island is now part of Silhouette National Park operated by the Seychelles government.  The Nature Protection Trust (NPTS), established in 1997, that had been housed and given the task of operating the conservation efforts was evicted by the Silhouette National Park in 2011.  They are still continuing their conservation efforts but on a different island.