The UK has agreed to transfer sovereignty of the largely uninhabited Chagos archipelago to Mauritius ... among the most pristine tropical coral reef ecosystems on our planet.

Except for the US military base on Diego Garcia at the southern tip of the archipelago ... the most pristine tropical coral reef ecosystems on our planet. Chagos is nearly three times the area ...

Protection of pristine coral reefs in the Chagos archipelago in the Indian Ocean could be set to change – pictured here from Diego Garcia, the largest and only inhabited island. John Parker ...

The UK has agreed to transfer sovereignty of the largely uninhabited Chagos archipelago to Mauritius ... of remote seas include among the most pristine tropical coral reef ecosystems on our planet.

Mauritius is a stable and prosperous Indian Ocean archipelago ... coral reef, spilling up to 1,000 tonnes of heavy oil - one of the worst environmental disasters to hit the western Indian Ocean. 2024 ...

One notable example would be the waters of Cambodia’s Kep Archipelago, which were once rich with seagrass and teeming with life. Unfortunately, years of industrial fishing and bottom-trawling wiped ...

In a joint statement with Mauritius last Thursday, the UK government said negotiations had been conducted “with the intention of resolving all outstanding issues between the United Kingdom and ...

North of Peros Banhos, there are two reefs and a sandbank ... jointly agree to maintain the Chagos archipelago’s fully protected status, in the interests of marine conservation.

Diego Garcia is the largest island of the Chagos Archipelago, part of the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT). It has been used as a joint UK-US military base since the 1970s, following the ...