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6 Reef 2 Exped

…temperatures (C. Sheppard, A. Sheppard). Task 3: Extend video archive for long term assessment of coral reef benthic community structure (J. Turner, R. Roche, J. Sannassy Pilly). Task 4: Three-dimensional determination of reef structural complexity and spatial analysis of coral recruitment (D. Bayley, A. Mogg). Tasks 5 & 6: Spatiotemporal variations in internal wave driven upwelling and resilience potential across the Chagos Archipelago (G. Willi…

11 Turtles II

…urtle nesting activities on Diego Garcia and improve adult population size estimates. 3) to count immature turtles at Turtle Cove using an Unmanned Arial Vehicle (i.e. a quadcopter) and observe their foraging behaviour. 4) to assess the impact of microplastics on sand temperatures and incubating sea turtle eggs. 5) to perform maintenance duties on monitoring equipment deployed year-round on Diego Garcia (i.e. remote camera traps and temperature lo…

BIOT Corals Stamp Issue 05.09.17

…in 2015 and 2016 we experienced the third global bleaching event in two decades, causing mass mortality of BIOT’s coral reefs. These last two years have impacted the Territory so severely, that scientists think that in some locations up to 85% of BIOT’s corals may have died. The Administration of the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOTA) continues with its conservation efforts, however, and seeks to ensure that the Territory acts as a natural la…

BIOT WWI Centenary Stamp Issue 11.11.18

…ntenary 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, chemical warfare and the further development of the aeroplane. New weapons required new countermeasures; st…

Tackling Plastic Pollution

…lastic (by weight) in the ocean than fish, as production of plastic dramatically increases year on year. The most common items of plastic pollution around the world are: plastic bottles, fishing gear, plastic bags, cigarette butts, plastic straws, plastic lids and food wrappers. But the problem goes deeper than these items: even washing your clothes causes plastic pollution as microscopic fibres from every wash end up in our oceans. In the British…

4 Reef 1 Exped

…coral communities, as well as quantifying hydrodynamic processes at many scales. Altogether, 6 collaborating teams from BPMS projects were represented. The expedition participants came from the Australian Institute of Marine Science, Exeter University, Lancaster University, Stanford University, the Zoological Society of London, Imperial College London, Oxford University, and University of Victoria. Following the mass coral bleaching of 2015/2016,…

Vessel Found Fishing Illegally in BIOT Waters

…s vulnerable by the IUCN, such as silvertip and silky sharks, and two critical species, the whitetip reef and scalloped hammerhead sharks. Also found were multiple species of reef fish and tuna, including bigeye (also listed as Vulnerable), skipjack and dogtooth, which will be reported to the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC). The catch was destroyed following an order from the Magistrate. IUU fishing is a major threat to the health and sustaina…

Butterflyfishes of BIOT Stamp Issue 8.12.20

…on various types of corals. Animals that feed almost entirely on coral are called corallivores. They are closely related to the Yellow Teardrop. This Teardrop Butterflyfish has a snout and strong jaws. This Teardrop Butterflyfish’s back, dorsal fins and pelvis are coloured in bright yellow, the edge of its anal and dorsal are outlined in the colour black finished with an transparent tail. A shape of a Teardrop is located on the upper body in the c…

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