 You know, we live within the marine environment as a Navy. And it's important for us to be able to protect that environment as we operate within it, along with the rest of the natural life that is inside the ocean. Well, this is a very special place for lots of reasons. The coral reef is the biggest living coral atoll anywhere in the world. So the Great Shagos Bank is an enormous coral atoll. And that's been de facto protected since the 70s, since the facility was built on Diego Garcia. So it doesn't have the pressures of local pollution, coastal development, overfishing of reef fish, all of the things that affects reefs across the region and across the Indian Ocean. The islands and reefs here have been spared that. So that's really significant. It's incredibly significant for seabird populations who are present here in enormous numbers. And their populations are growing, which is unusual because across the region they're generally going down and in Biot they're going up. Sea turtles as well come here from all over the Southwest Indian Ocean. They come to the beaches of Diego Garcia specifically to nest in huge numbers. And for the open ocean, pelagic animals, the sharks, the tuna, the billfish, it's really a safe haven. It's somewhere that they can come to avoid the overfishing pressures that they get across the rest of the region. So turtles are a very charismatic marine species and really threatened globally. There are two species that come here. The green turtle, which is endangered, and the hawksbill turtle, which is critically endangered. So really, the population is being depleted. But we think an amazing 50% of the hawksbill population across the Southwest Indian Ocean comes here to nest, which is an amazing statistic. Our main focus is to make sure that whilst here, everyone just sticks to the law as it is regards to not interfering with the flora and fauna. Because this is a conservation area where there's not a lot of people meant to come here. There's no civilians allowed technically. It is contractors or military personnel. So we are, in effect, the select few who have been given the opportunity to come to this place because it is probably one of the last remaining places worldwide where you can see nature at its best. And you have all these wild animals that are not afraid of humans because they've not had much contact with them. I think it's really clear from what's happened to the red-footed booby and other bird populations on Diego Garcia over the decades that the facility has been on DG with the US and UK forces stationed here that that's afforded a degree of protection. Most of this atoll isn't used. Most of the activity is based around downtown and adjacent areas. So that whole other arm of the atoll is really left in peace. And that's what's so missing in today's world is really a chance for nature to just get on with it. And we've seen the amazing results with the booby numbers picking back up. Plastics have a really direct effect, probably most obviously on sea turtles. And that's because as you see the plastic washes up on the beaches. Turtles are coming ashore in large numbers to lay nests and that means that the plastic can get in their way both when they're digging nests and when the hatchlings are trying to emerge from the nest because the nest pit you'll often see will fill up with plastic. You can imagine the hatchlings trying to fight their way out of the nest and then they're buried underneath a pile of plastic bottles. Microplastics as they break down get into the sand column and that can affect the temperature of the nest. And the temperature of a nest is what determines whether the hatchlings will be male or female. Now across the whole region nests are overwhelmingly becoming female. So male hatchlings are becoming more rare as time goes on and temperatures go up. On DG we're pretty sure that the hatchling sex ratio is about 50-50 which is amazing. So DG is exporting male hatchlings across the whole southwest Indian Ocean. Having a port, having operations for the space force that go on all the time and then just living 2,500 people here and being able to maintain the environment in this pristine condition that takes a lot of effort and not necessarily on my part but effort across the entire island. So it is substantial the amount of work that people put in to ensure that we have the right systems the right processes in order to be able to do that.