Since then, a large amount of subfossil material has been collected from Mauritius, mostly from the Mare aux Songes swamp.

It has been frequently hypothesized that Mauritius was first discovered by the Arabs, who named the island Dina Arobi.

From those days, only the name Mauritius has remained.

Mauritius has a multi-party system.

Since independence in 1968, Mauritius has developed from a low-income, agriculturally based economy to a middle-income diversified economy with growing industrial, financial, and tourist sectors.

Mauritius, with its strong textile sector, has been well poised to take advantage of the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act ( AGOA ).

Mauritius has attracted US $ 10. 98 billion in Foreign direct investment inflows.

Mauritius has followed a pragmatic development strategy in which liberalisation process was sequenced and tailored to its competitive advantages and weaknesses.

Mauritius has a strong human capital foundation developed through consistent and equitable investment in human development.

Mauritius has several operators like Mauritius Telecom, Nomad, Mahanagar Telephone Mauritius Limited ( MTML ) & Emtel.

Mauritius has a widespread bus network with around 220 bus lines and roughly 900 bus stops.

Mauritius has strong and friendly relations with the West, as well as with India and the countries of southern and eastern Africa.

Considered part of Africa geographically, Mauritius has friendly relations with other African states in the region, particularly South Africa, by far its largest continental trading partner.

India has remained one of its biggest trading partners ; in addition India has deep social and historical links with a large portion of the population of Mauritius, India is the country's second largest source of foreign assistance.

Mauritius has established a High Commission in Kuala Lumpur.

Pakistan has an embassy at Port Louis and Mauritius has an embassy at Islamabad.

The Russian Federation has an embassy in Port Louis, and Mauritius has an embassy in Moscow, which was opened in July 2003.

The UNCCD has 194 country Parties: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, The Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burma, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, the People's Republic of China, Colombia, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Côte d ' Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, European Union, Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon, The Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, the Republic of Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, South Korea, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Federated States of Micronesia, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, São Tomé and Príncipe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Thailand, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe

* 1970s: Mauritius profited from sugar rents, established an export processing zone EPZ and successfully attracted capital and foreign investment in manufacturing.

Other species have more restricted distributions, particularly island endemics like the Mauritius Kestrel.

Several insular species have declined dramatically, none more so than the Mauritius Kestrel, which at one time numbered no more than four birds.

Undeniably, racing is one of the most popular sports in Mauritius now attracting regular crowds of 20, 000 people or more to the only racecourse of the island.

He made many contributions to the epidemiology of malaria and to methods of its survey and assessment, but perhaps his greatest was the development of mathematical models for the study of its epidemiology, initiated in his report on Mauritius in 1908, elaborated in his Prevention of malaria in 1911 and further elaborated in a more generalised form in scientific papers published by the Royal Society in 1915 and 1916.

After a second and more severe engagement on 3 August, the French admiral returned to Mauritius, and when the monsoon set in Pocock went round to Bombay.

On the voyage out, to the East Indiaman Mauritius he inadvertently went more south to an unknown coast of Australia.

Had erosion not taken place, Cargados Carajos would have been a large volcanic island, and the Mascarenes would have been an archipelago of seven or more ( counting Saya De Malha, Nazareth and Soudan ) large, populated islands, rather than the three ( Mauritius, Reunion, Rodrigues ) that remain today.

Mauritius, Réunion, and Rodrigues were also once each home to one or more species of giant tortoises, now extinct, which comprised the genus Cylindraspis.

The PSM worked with Jugnauth and the team moved into a more powerful party known as the Militant Socialist Movement, the MSM. Jugnauth led the MSM along with the support of an alliance with the Mauritius Labour Party and the Social Democrats.

Some species, such as gorillas and orangutans, are well known while other species, such as the Livingstone's Fruit Bat, the Pied Tamarin, the Giant Jumping Rat, the Madagascar Teal ( Bernier's Teal ), the Echo Parakeet ( Mauritius Parakeet ), the Mountain Chicken ( actually a giant frog ), and Round Island Boa, are more obscure.

It gained much popularity among Rastafarians and then more widely among the youths of Mauritius in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Mauritius, formerly a British colony, has kept English as its official language, although French is more widely spoken.

Cavadee is celebrated in January / February, more precisely by the Tamil community in Mauritius.

The MFA has been trying hard to make Mauritius more competitive on the international stage, and one of their approaches is the professionalization of football practices in Mauritius, which includes creating a truly professional domestic league and a solid national team training regiment.

These measures were taken in hopes of Mauritius becoming more competitive in international competitions.

The islands are classified as a dependency of Mauritius, which is more than 300 km south, and are administered from Port Louis.

Behaviour remains similar to other small species of Falco ( such as the Common Kestrel, Falco tinnunculus ) except on ( originally ) forested Mauritius where kestrels hunt arboreally more like hawks.

The Mauritius Kestrel, F. punctatus, is more distantly related to the preceding two, having diverged from ancestral Madagascar region kestrels some time in the Gelasian ( Groombridge et al.

Millions of years ago, the bank was one or more mountainous volcanic islands, like present-day Mauritius and Réunion, which subsequently sank below the waves.

" Terra Nostra " has been successfully shown worldwide, from places such as Tahiti, Russia, Greece, Canada, Peru, the United States of America, Mauritius, Serbia, Hungary, and Philippines to Italy, Spain, Croatia, Portugal and many more.

The network operates the three channels B4U Music, B4U Movies and B4U Mobile which are at present available on more than 8 different satellites, in more than 100 countries including the USA, UK, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Mauritius, Canada and India.

This is a list of the extreme points of Mauritius, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location.

It is larger than the nation of Guadeloupe and smaller than the country of Mauritius.

Countries that are at this stage ( Total Fertility Rate of less than 2. 5 in 1997 ) include: United States, Canada, Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, all of Europe, Bahamas, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, Brazil, Sri Lanka, South Korea, Singapore, Iran, China, Turkey, Thailand and Mauritius.

The green body colour is paler than in the Mauritius lowland forest day gecko.

The islands of the Indian Ocean, especially Mauritius, with extensive sugar cane plantations sought a cheaper workforce than emancipated workers negotiating for higher wages.

No person shall be eligible for election to the office of President unless he is a citizen of Mauritius who is not less than 40 years of age and has resided in Mauritius for a period of not less than 5 years immediately preceding the election.

More than 200 Students from Bangladesh, Ghana, Mauritius, Nepal, Nigeria and Pakistan study here under the university graduation and master programmes of different engineering fields and business. The University website: www. syuct. edu.

This neo-Malthusian model incorporating Kuznets ' work, yields a helix model of the relationships over time rather than just a curve </ Lempert, David, " A Demographic-Economic Explanation of Political Stability: Mauritius as a Microcosm ," Eastern Africa Economic Review, Vol.

Rogers Group is currently the no. 1 conglomerate in Mauritius in terms of annual turnover of more than Rs. 8 billion or US $ 300 millions.

* also during the 1980s, devised and led the successful eradication of rabbits from Round Island, Mauritius ( Indian Ocean )-Round Island was said to support more threatened animal and plant forms than any comparable area on Earth, but survival of these was seriously threatened by the rabbits ;

These islands were more than ten times the size of Mauritius and Reunion, however they have submerged under the ocean.

In 1998, AEF joined with SIM, and the work of the newly merged Mission embraced Angola, Botswana, Gabon, Madagascar, Mauritius, Réunion, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe, bringing the total of countries in which SIM is active to more than 43.