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Catlin Seaview Survey and Google Street View
…Ile Coquillage Proposed as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by McGowan et al., 2008. https://www.google.com/maps/streetview/#remote-islands-of-the-world/grande-ile-coquillage-british-indian-ocean-territory Ile du Sel Ile du Sel is a tiny island vegetated with a thick forest of coconut palms. In late 2014 the island was the site of a trial to remove introduced rats which should allow seabirds to return and nest. The success of the project will be dete…
BIOTA Mini-Films Highlighting the Territory
…Watch and enjoy the beauty of the Territory. Reef Fish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV4moz-CpwQ <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV4moz-CpwQ> Islands https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0-OP8ljdR0 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0-OP8ljdR0> Corals https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyE32SakbCQ <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyE32SakbCQ> Seabirds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFCJkQQF6H0 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFCJkQQF6H0> BIOT Icons h…
New Territory Stamp and Coin Issues
….com/index.asp First Day Covers cost £2.88 and stamps are priced at 54p and 90p and can be bought individually or in sheets of 20. COINS: A new coin for the Territory has also been launched: the £2 Archipelago and Wildlife coin. The design features an image of native wildlife of British Indian Ocean Territory consisting of a Turtle, a Red-Footed Booby Bird and some Angel Fish. The Outline of Diego Garcia Island is shown in the background. The obve…
New 50p Turtles Commemorative Coin Series
…9) Leatherback Turtle (released 7th October 2019) Loggerhead Turtle (released 22nd October 2019) Olive Ridley Turtle (released 12th November 2019) These are available for sale from Pobjoy Mint at: https://www.pobjoy.com/products/commemorative-coins/british-indian-ocean-territory All coins are sold in a capsule within a Pobjoy Mint blue pouch. For this issue, a five-coin set album is also available for separate purchase. …
Tackling Plastic Pollution
…d beyond being washed up on the beaches of BIOT’s remote islands. The most common items you find washed up on BIOT’s beaches are: flip flops; fishing gear; plastic bottles and polystyrene. Combating this problem is imperative for us all and there are many things we can do to help resolve this problem, even if it might only seem like a small contribution. On Diego Garcia, the only inhabited island in the Territory, a number of new initiatives have…
BIOT WWI Centenary Stamp Issue 11.11.18
…nley Gibbons stamp shop on the Strand in London: http://www.biotpostoffice.com/index.asp 2018 marks the centenary of the end of the First World War, a conflict of an unprecedented scale. It involved people from every continent and resulted in nine million deaths. For the first time in a major war, deaths from battle injuries exceeded those from disease. The four years of war brought innovations in terms of warfare – the introduction of the tank, c…
BIOT Children’s Stamp Competition Issue 04.09.18
…efs. These islands in the archipelago were formed from coral sand and rock after the last ice-ages. In 2010, the UK Government created one of the largest Marine Protected Areas (MPA) on the planet inside BIOT. All commercial fishing was stopped inside the MPA, which is 640,000km2 of the Indian Ocean. This unique and special place is a safe refuge for 310 species of coral, 821 species of fish and 355 species of molluscs, some of which are found now…
Rats and Reefs
…read the results of Professor Graham’s study in Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0202-3 And see the BBC article highlighting the issue: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-44799420 The BIOT Administration welcomes the wide publicisation of this study, particularly as it is the International Year of the Reef. Rat eradication is a priority for the BIOT Administration and will form a significant part of the new Conservati…
BIOT Plants Stamp Issue 02.05.18
…nley Gibbons stamp shop on the Strand in London: http://www.biotpostoffice.com/index.asp The Chagos Archipelago is a large and isolated atoll complex, dominated by coral reefs, and with over 50 small islands. These islands were re-formed from coral sand and rock after the last ice-ages. Freshwater is found within this matrix of sand and rock, which is how the first plants were able to take root. Over time, soil built up on these land patches, enha…
Stamps and Coins
…POSTAGE STAMPS A wide range of current and past issues of British Indian Ocean Territory postage stamps and first day covers can be purchased online from the BIOT Post Office on Diego Garcia (using PayPal) and they will be sent out to you direct from the Territory: http://www.biotpostoffice.com/index.asp They can also be purchased from the Stanley Gibbons stamp shop on the Strand in London. Details of our past stamp issues can be found here….