Chagos Archipelago

Silvertip sharks congregate in large groups potentially numbering in the hundreds in the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean. Now researchers working in this remote archipelago think they know why. Roughly every 12 hours, tides set in motion waves of cold, dense water that slosh over two of the ...

A team of researchers with members from the U.S., France and the U.K. has found evidence showing reductions in shark populations in a part of the Indian ocean thought to be nearly pristine—the Chagos archipelago. In their paper published on the open access site Science Advances, the group describes ...

A brief release from the Argentine foreign ministry indicates that on March first, on petition from the International Court of Justice, Argentina presented its Consultive Opinion on the juridical consequences of splitting the Chagos archipelago from the Mauritius Islands which took place in 1965.

When swimming in the waters of the isolated Chagos archipelago in the Indian Ocean, a half-dozen sharks would sometimes surround Francesco Ferretti. ... sharks — like Mako and Tigers — which very well could have been done in by overfishing, even in the open sea, farther from the Chagos islands.

In June 2017, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a Resolution, initiated by Mauritius, to refer the issue of sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago to the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, for an Advisory Opinion. The Resolution was adopted by a ...

Perhaps nowhere is the unlikely alliance between militarism and environmentalism more pronounced than in the Chagos Archipelago, a collection of around 60 tiny islets in the central Indian Ocean. Formerly governed by the British Empire as part of the Colony of Mauritius, the Chagos Islands were made ...

In a January 2015 expedition to the Chagos Archipelago, he was with a team that captured footage of a gulper shark, a species that had not previously been seen in that area. During another expedition, he helped to capture images of a Pitcairn angelfish swimming around a reef system 40 miles away from ...

Chagossians were forcibly evicted from the Chagos archipelago in 1960 when the UK leased the main island, Diego Garcia, to the United States to use ... UN resolution requesting an advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice in the Hague, Netherlands, on the legal status of the Chagos islands.

Lawyers representing Mrs Horeau, who along with the entire population of the Chagos Archipelago were forcibly removed from their homes by the ... the fact that the UK has not made an explicit declaration under Article 56 of the ECHR extending the application of the Convention to the Chagos Islands.

Following a vote in the UN last June, the ICJ is due to consider the "legal consequences" of the separation of the Chagos Islands from Mauritius in 1965, three years before Mauritius gained independence. The deadline for written submissions has been extended to March 1, 2018. It's probably fairly easy to ...

Then, the United States of America leased Diego Garcia in Chagos Islands from the UK to set up its Indian Ocean military base. ... of Mauritius lawfully completed when Mauritius was granted independence in 1968, following the separation of the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius" under international law?

The UK official “said that the BIOT's former inhabitants would find it difficult, if not impossible, to pursue their claim for resettlement on the islands if the entire Chagos Archipelago were a marine reserve,” the cable reads. It also refers to the government's thinking on the reserve that “there would be no human ...

In November 1965, the UK purchased the entire Chagos Archipelago from the then self-governing colony of Mauritius for £3m to create the British Indian ... Establishing a marine reserve might indeed, as FCO's Roberts stated, be the most effective long-term way to prevent any of the Chagos islands' former ...

Read more. Britain expelled the entire population of the Chagos Islands more than 40 years ago to make way for a US military base on the island of Diego Garcia. The Chagossians are seeking a ruling that a decision to create a marine park around the British-controlled islands was for the improper purpose ...

In 1965, three years before Mauritius was granted independence, the UK decided to separate the Chagos Islands, an archipelago, from the rest of its Indian Ocean colony. The Mauritian government claims this was in breach of UN resolution 1514, passed in 1960, which specifically banned the breakup of ...

The UK is in danger of losing a vote at the UN on the fate of the Chagos Islands, an Indian Ocean archipelago that has been at the centre of a long-running dispute between Britain and Mauritius. The UN is voting on Thursday on a Mauritian resolution to refer the matter of the islands to the international court ...

New Delhi: India has submitted a written statement to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in support of Mauritius's demand for sovereignty over Chagos Archipelago from Britain. Sources told The Wire that New Delhi submitted its statement on the Chagos question to The Hague-based ICJ on February 28 ...