Help protect Chagos, one of the greatest marine environments left on Earth

[laguna3fase4]

I think this group has been set up by the UK and US governments...its all bollocks saving f*cking fish ...how about the islanders who were illegally removed Give them their homes back and let them decide if they want a Marine park or not.

Its all tactics to keep them off their island homes

[umvhu]

SHAME ON YOU! First abandon everything you possess for the benefit of the planet before you deny some one else their home.

Disingenuous hypocrites

[mykingdomforanus]

Islanders lose out. However, the marine life in this reserve win.

The Islanders would have, like everywhere, just slaughtered everything until it was all gone. Then what.

The Islanders need to be compensated, but the marine reserve is so so important.

[lozman67]

@mykingdomforanus The islanders lived in perfect harmony with their environment until US troops moved in, gassed everyone's dogs to death and locked the islanders up in cargo ships, sitting on sacks of birdshit before being dumped in Mauritius slums. Creating a nature reserve has never excluded people from living in it, nor compensate for this horrible crime. The terms of the reserve are specifically to prevent the islanders from going home, as the lease is ending in 2016. Cynical. Shameful.

[RomanLegion3]

Yeah. I will not be signing this petition. I am with the islanders in their struggle to return home!

[alexdurai]

I am with the Chagos Natives. Not with you "Environmental fucktards.

If you wanna protect the environment, why don't you exile the marines who stay there now?

[28Allegra]

Not that I'm not totally on-board with environment-protection, but since when did protecting marine wildlife become more important than protecting human life?

By now there's enough evidence to unequivocally state that the establishment of a marine protection zone was done in order to quell all the chances of the Chagossians of returning to the homeland that they were illegally and maliciously torn away from. So I'm not too clear on the "victory" here...

[projectaquatone]

This was a cruel and vindictive act by monkey boy Milliband in his last days as foreign secretary. It effectively removed any possiblity of a return for the native Chaggosians by erasing fishing - the main industry and means by which they could sustain themselves. Monkey boy Milliband should be held accountable in a World Court for clear and unequivocable misuse of power!

[konstantinNeo]

Have you wondered why you cannot see anything of the Chagos Archipelago in google maps?

[lozman67]

@konstantinNeo he he.. try 'Guantanamo' as well!

[staszekgobi]

noble concept, but how about the local people who were moved by force by the benevelent british back in mid 60'? the UNHRC (U.N. human rights commission)

specifically prevents these atrocities from taking place therefore the term genocide does apply here

unless you are from the u.k. government and i will get a knock on my door by tomorrow morning...

and i wish i could write lol...

i don't know where you guys are from but in this solar system people

and humanity are still of value

[konstantinNeo]

@staszekgobi

As usual the establishment is pouring emotional diarrhea into its mindless drones. "Save chagos"

They probably are establishing chagos as elitist hideout in case world war 3 poisons the mainlands. Step one, steal a nation from poor people, check. Step two, establish a military base, check. Step three, establish hotels with servants and the usual infrastructure, check.

Please save chagos, we want it four ourselves while we poison the rest of you to death. Suckers.

[reprovo]

....where the population was uprooted and dumped in slums after there dogs were slaughtered. Now a marine park is needed to prevent the people from returning to their homes.

[alr7eel07]

You should know that the reason for the Chagos families occupy America and Britain to your island is to fight the Islamic world because the location of the Chagos island strategically located to control the Islamic world

[alr7eel07]

Who wants to know the truth about America and Britain, and I hope that the visit Islamic sites in the future affairs talk to America and Britain, because Islam expose America and Britain

[alr7eel07]

Learn United States and Britain that the heads of the Islamic world are traitors to their people, and I also learned that the United States and Britain to a Muslim person equal to 1000 human Briton and an American .... Islam prevailing in the latter

[alr7eel07]

America and Britain believe that Muslims are cowards and it is easy to control them and why was the occupation of Britain and America to the island of the Chagos

To impose control over the Muslim world by the islands

[alr7eel07]

May Allah curse the Jews and the Christians, and Britain and America, and the occupation of the islands to the opening of the Antichrist and the Islamic religion is a fight America, Britain, Islam will prevail

[ChagosUK]

Yes, let's act to protect the marine environment of Chagos. But let's also campaign for justice for the indigenous people of the islands - the Chagossians.

The CEN campaign risks jeopardising the Chagossians' right to return by calling for a no-take ban on fishing. Instead, we should be calling for a conservation regime that honours the Chagossians' basic human rights.

A limited resettlement is perfectly compatible with environmental protection - let's work together to find a solution!

[jomiralua]

Yeah!

On April 1st:

"The UK Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, announced today the creation of a Marine Protected Area in the British Indian Ocean Territory (the Chagos Archipelago). This will include a no-take marine reserve where commercial fishing will be banned."

I hope this was not an April's fools joke! :)

[jomiralua]

Yeah, success, for a change!

On April 1st:

"The UK Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, announced today the creation of a Marine Protected Area in the British Indian Ocean Territory (the Chagos Archipelago). This will include a no-take marine reserve where commercial fishing will be banned."

I hope this was not an April's fools joke! :)

[victorcelmare]

lets act !