This website is dedicated to the science and conservation of the world’s largest coral atoll containing some of the world’s healthiest coral reefs and the cleanest sea water tested so far in the world. Where and what is the Chagos ? The Chagos has the world’s largest coral atoll and 55 tiny islands of which the largest is Diego Garcia in quarter of a million square miles of the world’s cleanest seas. It is by far Britain’s greatest area of marine biodiversity.
The Chagos Marine Protected Area.
Created in an announcement of the UK Government on 1 April 2010.
This designation of a strict Marine Protected Area out to the 200 mile limit creates the largest marine reserve in the world, a conservation legacy almost unrivalled in scale and significance. It will contribute to a number of globally agreed targets, such as halting the decline of biodiversity by 2010, establishing a representative marine protection network by 2012 and restoring depleted fish stocks by 2015 where possible. No other action taken by the United Kingdom makes anything near such a considerable contribution to these agreed global targets and undoubtedly establishes the UK as a world leader in marine conservation for the benefit of all nations for the foreseeable future.
Updated 31 January 2012
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