The sliteye shark has been recorded for the first time on the Great Chagos Bank, the world's largest coral atoll ...

Large ocean animals can be protected throughout much of their lifecycle by huge Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), new research ...

Conservative shadow foreign secretary Dame Priti Patel accused ministers of trying to ‘cover up’ the cost of ceding the ...

Scientists tracked sea turtles, manta rays and seabirds – all of which travel far and wide to forage, breed and migrate – in ...

In 2019 the U.N. General Assembly demanded in a non-binding resolution that the British government end its "colonial administration" of the Chagos Archipelago and that they be returned to Mauritius.

Britain split the Chagos Islands away from Mauritius, a former British colony, in 1965, three years before Mauritius gained independence, and called the Chagos archipelago the British Indian Ocean ...

Conclusion The Chagos Archipelago is a strategically vital component of Western security’s global footprint. It has been under continuous UK sovereignty for over two centuries. A recent deal between ...

Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable When swimming in the waters of the isolated Chagos archipelago in the Indian Ocean, a half-dozen sharks would sometimes surround Francesco Ferretti.

The UK and Mauritius said they’ve made ‘good progress’ in a round of talks to settle the sovereignty of the Chagos archipelago in the Indian Ocean, including the stewardship of a key US ...

Ordinarily, this is a daunting task when there are so many competing objectives and so much background noise in parliament. On the Chagos Archipelago issue however, the stakes might be high enough – ...

The U.K. formally detached the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius in 1965, calling it the British Indian Ocean Territory. In 1968, Mauritius gained its independence from the U.K.