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 ...

Minister Baroness Chapman confirmed that there has been an agreement with the Mauritian Government that they establish a new marine protected area (MPA). The Chagos Marine Protected Area is one of ...

The Chagos marine protected area (MPA) was once hailed as the world’s largest fully protected marine reserve. But disquiet at the treatment of Chagossians has led to it being removed from global ...

The Chagos archipelago includes roughly 60 islands in the central Indian Ocean. Image by Andrés Alegría/Mongabay. In 2010, the U.K. unilaterally established a marine protected area (MPA) in Chagos, an ...

Since its independence, Mauritius has claimed sovereignty over Chagos, claiming that the ... sovereignty over BIOT by declaring the area as a ‘Marine Protected Area’ (MPA).

No route to aquatic recovery is more valuable than Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), the biggest and most important in the world being the one around the Chagos Islands. The islands became British ...

The future of the Chagos marine protected area that the British created in 2010 is also uncertain. The MPA creation was criticized for being an ocean grab, allegedly to keep Chagossians from ...

Mauritius instituted an unsuccessful claim under the UN Convention of the Law of the Sea to assert its sovereignty over the Chagos Islands in response to the UK declaring a Marine Protected Area ...