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Catlin Seaview Survey and Google Street View

…ion 360-degree panoramic vision in response to the dramatic decline of the world’s reefs due to pollution, destructive fishing and climate change. http://catlinseaviewsurvey.com/surveys/indian-ocean/chagos A Google Trekker unit accompanied the Catlin Seaview Survey team to the British Indian Ocean Territory. The Trekker goes where Google’s StreetView cars can’t go and is responsible for capturing some of the most unique imagery in all of StreetVie…

How to apply for a mooring permit

…e read the guidance please complete the BIOT Outer Islands Permit Request (Word document) form. Send the following to BIOTA.Environment@fcdo.gov.uk: The completed permit request form A copy of your insurance documents covering medical evacuation (minimum US$100,000 per person) and wreck recovery, clean up and removal in BIOT. Please highlight the sections in your documentation that cover this. These documents must be in English and it is your resp…

9 Nov Turtle Exped

…rtles remain close to Turtle Cove with one foray outside of the lagoon. 9. Updates throughout the expedition were posted on Twitter (with #BIOTscience and links to @BIOTscience) and on the Facebook site Chagos Turtles. Membership has reached almost 234 followers and updates of sea turtle locations will be posted in the forthcoming months. Two expedition blogs have been posted on the BIOT expedition blog website page of ZSL (https://www.zsl.org/blo…

Design a Stamp Competition for Children

…Great Chagos Bank (which is mainly underwater) and is the largest atoll structure in the world at some 13,000 km2. Reef fish are six times more abundant in BIOT than on any other reef in the Indian Ocean. Analyses of pollution levels (1996 and 2006) show BIOT belongs ‘to one of the world’s least contaminated coastal areas’ and ‘could be considered appropriate as a global reference baseline’. After bleaching in 1998 caused up to 90% mortality of I…

BIOT WRNS 100 Stamp Issue 28.11.17

…was disbanded in 1919, then revived in 1939 at the beginning of the Second World War, remaining active until integrated into the Royal Navy in 1993. Roles that women in the WRNS undertook included cooks, clerks, wireless telegraphists, radar plotters, weapons analysts, range assessors, electricians and air mechanics. Today women can serve in the Royal Navy in any role, including the Submarine Service. Following the Government’s recent announcement…

BIOT Children’s Stamp Competition Issue 04.09.18

…rs: Kyle Irvine, 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…

Remembrance Day 2019

…Today the United Kingdom, Commonwealth nations and our partners around the world will honour the sacrifices of those who gave their lives in that terrible war and other conflicts since. As part of these commemorations Cdr. Kay Burbidge RN, Commissioner’s Representative and Commander British Forces in BIOT, has laid a wreath at the small War Graves cemetery on Diego Garcia bearing the following message from Commissioner Ben Merrick: “In memory of a…

6 June Turtle Exped

…and by the Senior Fisheries Patrol Officer (SFPO) (on remote islands) were organised. Data files (six sites) were exchanged for the ongoing Baited Remote Underwater Video (BRUV) study conducted by the SFPO on the Great Chagos Bank. 9. Updates throughout the expedition were posted on Twitter (links to @BIOTscience) and on the Facebook site Chagos Turtles. Membership has reached almost 200 followers and updates of sea turtle locations will be posted…

3 March Array Servicing Exped

…sing water temperatures 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 larges…

Rats and Reefs

…02-3 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 Conservation Management Plan, which will be published in the autumn this year. BIOTA is working closely with th…

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