Chagos Conservation Trust

Coral Cay Conservation

More comment from the media:

The Times:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6997414.ece

The Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/cif-green/2010/jan/27/chagos-preserve-natural-wonder

The Independent:
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/man-vs-marine-in-the-chagos-islands-1894560.html

Many different and prestigious organisations are helping by announcing the Chagos MPA consultation in their websites. A selection of them are -

The Natural History Museum International Year of Biodiversitywebsite http://www.biodiversityislife.net/?q=node/248

The Chagos Environment Network petition sites http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/271759692

and http://www.protectchagos.org/

The PEW Charitable Trust website http://www.pewtrusts.org/news_room_detail.aspx?id=55984

The PEW Global Ocean Legacy website http://globaloceanlegacy.org/newsroom/release_10nov2009.html

The IUCN MPA website http://blog.protectplanetocean.org/2009/11/consultation-to-protect-british-indian.html

The Coral Cay Conservation website http://www.coralcay.org/content/view/787/281/

The British Ecological Society website http://britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/blog/2009/11/25/conserving-the-chagos/

There have also been a lot of articles written in newspapers, newsletters and journals.

See this encouraging letter in The Times

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/article6968313.ece

Prof Charles Sheppard gave an interview on the BBC World Service, the same week as a major coral reef meeting was held in London, organised by the Zoological Society of London. Globally coral reefs are on a knife’s edge, making Chagos’ relatively untouched marine environment unique. Here is the link to the relevant Science in Action page on the BBC website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p003jkk2

See also http://royalsociety.org/page.asp?id=3093 (select “Is the Great Barrier Reef on Death Row?”).

Some web reactions to the successful launch of our Brochure at the Royal Society on 9 March 2009

http://www.wildlifeextra.com/go/news/chagos-archipelago827.html#cr

http://blog.protectplanetocean.org/2009/03/conservation-plans-for-chagos-unveiled.html

http://www.rspb.org.uk/news/details.asp?id=tcm:9-212261

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/88429/Conservation-plea-on-ocean-islands

http://www.turkishweekly.net/media/126784/giant-marine-park-plan-for-chagos.html