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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
 
 
 
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

 

1 March 2010 Update
 
 

The Government has extended to 5 March the closing date for the public consultation on the proposed Marine Protected Area in the ...

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Chagos Environment Network Welcomes the UK Government’s
  London, 10 November 2009 — The Chagos Environment Network (CEN) welcomed the UK government’s announcement today of a ...

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