When Captain Robert Moresby sailed through the Chagos Islands between 1834 and 1837, to conduct the first survey of the ...

October 31 was a memorable day for the world's largest designated marine protection area (MPA), when fishing within the Chagos archipelago came to an ... middle of the Indian Ocean as a "no-take" ...

Now that Sir Keir Starmer has unilaterally decided to give up British ownership of the Chagos Islands, the last vestige of ...

View on YouTube Allow content from YouTube Pew experts discuss creation in April, 2010 of the world's largest marine reserve in Chagos Islands. The designation bans commercial fishing in the area.

The British government announced last week that it is handing the Chagos Islands to Mauritius under an agreement that will see the American naval and bomber base stay on one of the islands ...

Labour’s surrender of the Chagos Islands puts at risk one of the world's largest marine protected areas, MPs and campaigners have warned. The Chagos Marine Protected Area is one of the world's ...

The protected marine reserve, extends from 12 miles offshore Pitcairn Island to the full 200 nautical mile limit, encompassing over 830,000 sq kms of ocean Over 1,200 marine species have been ...

Currently the world's largest marine reserve is a 545,000-sq-km area established by the UK around the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean.