UK Poised to Designate World's Largest Marine Reserve5 March 2010 — The Pew Environment Group praised the U.K. for taking one further step towards designating the world's largest marine reserve, protecting the Chagos Islands and its surrounding waters. With some of the cleanest seas in the world, the islands are home to one of the most ecologically healthy coral reef systems on the planet. 
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Protecting the Special Places in the SeaWorld-scale marine reserves — places where no fishing or other extractive activity is allowed — protect our global marine heritage for future generations and celebrate our shared ocean legacy. Building on the historic precedent of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, designated as the largest marine reserve in the world in 2006 and the Marianas Trench Marine National Monument and other marine monuments in the U.S. Pacific Islands in 2009, our aim — over the five year life of the project — is to establish three to five world-class, no-take marine reserves that will provide ecosystem-scale benefits and help conserve our global marine heritage. | |
Latest NewsProposed Indian Ocean Chagos marine reserve sparks controversy - USA Today - March 9, 2010 UK Poised to Designate World's Largest Marine Reserve - Pew Environment Group - 5 March 2010 Troubled history tinges marine plan - BBC - March 2, 2010 An Olympic-style challenge: U.K. vs. U.S. for ocean champion - Discovery News - February 23, 2010 The Case for the Chagos Protected Area (PDF) - Chagos Environment Network - January 29, 2010 The Chagos Protected Area: A Unique Scientific and Conservation Opportunity for the UK (PDF) - Chagos Environment Network - January 25, 2010 Global Ocean Legacy is a project initiated by the Pew Environment Group in partnership with the Oak Foundation, the Robertson Foundation and the Sandler Family Supporting Foundation. Download a factsheet on the project (PDF). |
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Global Ocean Legacy
