The Chagos Marine Reserve was established in 2010 and covers an area of 640,000 square kilometres - more than twice the area of the UK. The zone covered by reef is estimated to be about 60,000 ...

Chagos marine reserve polluted by politics. Exiled Chagossian islanders complain that a marine reserve gives fish more rights than them. They have a point. By Fred Pearce.

The UK government has created the world's largest marine reserve around the Chagos Islands. The reserve would cover a 545,000-sq-km area around the Indian Ocean archipelago, regarded as one of the ...

Man vs marine in the Chagos Islands Conservationists want to turn archipelago into a giant sea-life reserve. But what about the exiled population whose hopes of going home would be dashed forever?

The world's largest fully protected marine reserve comes into being today in the British territorial waters of the Chagos Archipelago, in the Indian Ocean. The 544,000sq km Chagos reserve is home ...

The last of these was formally recognised in 2010, when Britain declared the Chagos Archipelago to be a marine protected area (MPA), then the largest on earth, with a total area of 250,000 square ...

The Chagos Environment Network — a coalition of ocean scientists — said the area will replace the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument, in Hawaii, as the world's largest marine reserve.

In 2010, the U.K. created the Chagos Marine Protected Area, one of the world’s largest reserves, which banned fishing — a main source of livelihood for Chagossians — and the collection of ...

The Chagos Marine Protected Area is one of the world's largest officially designated protected areas. But MPs fear that Mauritius’ depleted Navy means the area is at risk of exploitation by China .

The Chagos Marine Reserve was established in 2010 and covers an area of 640,000 square kilometres - more than twice the area of the UK. The zone covered by reef is estimated to be about 60,000 ...

Up to 85% of the corals in the Chagos Marine Reserve of the British Indian Ocean Territory are estimated to have been damaged or killed in the current global bleaching event.