{"id":2437,"date":"2025-04-16T07:16:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T07:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parastatal1.govmu.org\/ssrbg\/?page_id=2437"},"modified":"2025-04-16T07:36:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T07:36:07","slug":"avenue-gabriel-regnard-1863-1932","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ssrbg.govmu.org\/ssrbg\/?page_id=2437","title":{"rendered":"Avenue Gabriel Regnard (1863- 1932)"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2437\" class=\"elementor elementor-2437\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-abf7118 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"abf7118\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-388a657 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"388a657\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c2d218a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c2d218a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Gabriel Regnard was born on 19 October 1863 in Port Louis, Mauritius.<\/p><p>Regnard was a keen horticulturist and arborist who established the Domaine Val Ory in Moka where he added to the natural beauty of the area by creating a successful acclimatization garden with rare species.<\/p><p>Gabriel Regnard is especially known for the introduction of \u00a0fruit trees and palm trees such as the <em>Carludovica palmata<\/em>, the Vanillier de Cayenne <em>Duranta plumieri<\/em>, the Brazilian Goyava <em>Feijoa sellowiana<\/em> and the Senegal date palm <em>Phenix reclinata<\/em>.<\/p><p>Gabriel Regnard is also remembered to have introduced the Guttoral toad <em>Sclerophrys gutturalis<\/em> from South Africa in 1922 as a biocontrol for the cane Beetle that was infesting the sugar cane plantations. The same Guttoral toad species was taken from Mauritius and introduced to R\u00e9union island as a biocontrol for malaria spreading mosquitoes.<\/p><p>Gabriel Regnard served as vice-president of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Mauritius.<\/p><p>Following his death in 1932, his son Ferdinand Regnard took over ownership of the Val Ory residence and the lovely garden his father had created.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gabriel Regnard was born on 19 October 1863 in Port Louis, Mauritius. Regnard was a keen horticulturist and arborist who established the Domaine Val Ory in Moka where he added to the natural beauty of the area by creating a successful acclimatization garden with rare species. Gabriel Regnard is especially known for the introduction of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2437","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssrbg.govmu.org\/ssrbg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssrbg.govmu.org\/ssrbg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssrbg.govmu.org\/ssrbg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssrbg.govmu.org\/ssrbg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssrbg.govmu.org\/ssrbg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2437"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ssrbg.govmu.org\/ssrbg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2495,"href":"https:\/\/ssrbg.govmu.org\/ssrbg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2437\/revisions\/2495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssrbg.govmu.org\/ssrbg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}