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Catlin Seaview Survey and Google Street View

…over quarter of a million square miles of the world’s cleanest seas. Politically, the archipelago is constituted as the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) and geographically the Chagos Archipelago. Located in the centre of the Indian Ocean, the British Indian Ocean Territory contains the world’s largest coral atoll and the greatest marine biodiversity in the UK by far. It also has one of the healthiest reef systems in the cleanest waters in the…

Master Pleads Guilty To Illegal Fishing In BIOT

…discarding of non-target and low-grade fish. This creates potential ecological, social and economic impacts throughout the Indian Ocean region. The BIOT Administration is committed to tackling IUU fishing and has sought co-operation from the vessel’s flag state, Sri Lanka to take further action against this vessel. With the support of the UK Government’s Blue Belt Programme, BIOT is continuing to increase its surveillance of the MPA and trial new…

BIOT Plants Stamp Issue 02.05.18

…ly threatened tree Guettarda speciosa (60p) – also known as Beach Gardenia Calophyllum inophyllum (£1) – also known as Takamaka Cordia subcordata (£1) – also known as Cordia Ipomoea pes*]}*-caprae (£2.50) – also known as Beach Morning Glory Scaevola taccada (featured on the first day cover) – also known as Scavvy You can buy these stamps and their First Day Covers online from the BIOT Post Office, or from the Stanley Gibbons stamp shop on the Strand i…

Postage stamps

…May 2018 Further information about this issue here. 2017 WRNS (Women’s Royal Naval Service) 100 First day of issue: 28 November 2017 Further information about this issue here. Platinum Wedding Anniversary: Queen Elizabeth II & Prince Philip Celebrating 70 Years First day of issue: 20 November 2017 Corals First day of issue: 05 September 2017 Further information about this issue here. Megafauna First day of issue: 08 June 2017 Further information…

Terrestrial Protected Areas

…Garcia Ramsar site provides a habitat for marine flora and fauna at a critical stage of their biological cycle including the endemic coral Ctenella chagius and the threatened Hawksbill and Green Turtles, Eretmochelys imbricata and Chelonia mydas. The site is also important for some of the 18 species of seabirds which breed in BIOT in internationally important numbers. RAMSAR map Important Bird Areas and Strict Nature Reserves BIOT has 10 Important…

BIOT Megafauna Stamp Issue 08.06.17

…IOT Marine Protected Area as many of these large pelagic species are endangered worldwide. The cameras are deployed as a string of 5 units, 200 metres apart on a longline, and suspended at 10 m. Typically between 150 and 250 individuals cameras are deployed per expedition within BIOT. For more information on this research, have a look at the Centre for Marine Futures.…

2 March Reef Exped

…edition 2018 aimed to undertake a survey of reef condition and especially reef recovery across the archipelago following the 2015-2016 warming events which had caused severe bleaching and mortality. In addition, instruments were deployed to build a more detailed picture of changes in environmental parameters affecting the reefs over time. The expedition worked its way from Peros Banhos, Salomon and Blenheim atolls, and then to Nelson’s Island, The…

Design a Stamp Competition for Children

…rocks but they are actually living organisms. They are tiny little animals called polyps. When polyps die, they harden and new polyps grow on top of them causing the reef to grow. Polyps need to eat to stay alive and eat tiny animals (plankton) as well as algae. This algae gets food from the sun by using photosynthesis and so this is why coral reefs form close to the surface of the water and in clear water where the sun reaches. Coral reefs in the…

BIOT Children’s Stamp Competition Issue 04.09.18

…ine, age 6, from Aberdeenshire Megan Lee Yit May, age 9, from Brunei Darussalam Laura Gilbert, age 12, from Norfolk Ailis Law, age 14, from Greater Manchester You can buy these stamps and their First Day Covers online from the BIOT Post Office, or from the Stanley Gibbons stamp shop on the Strand in London: http://www.biotpostoffice.com/index.asp Reefs in the British Indian Ocean Territory The British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) is a large and i…

3 March Array Servicing Exped

…tures and more extreme climatic events threatening to disrupt the complex balance of life harboured by the remote atoll systems that comprise the Chagos Archipelago. As a component of the Bertarelli Program in Marine Science (BPMS), researchers from Stanford University, the University of Western Australia and the Zoological Society of London have established one of the key monitoring platforms for assessing how some of the largest predatory fish i…

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