Ile Vache Marine Bird Habitat Restoration Project Reconnaissance
16th March 2014
In January a habitat restoration specialist, Grant Harper, visited the island of Vache Marine in the Chagos Archipelago as a precursor to a Darwin Initiative funded project to eradicate invasive rats in order to allow sea birds to return and nest there. This short video was shot during his visit and outlines the approach of the project. The eradication is due to be undertaken in August 2014.
In the latest issue of Chagos News
The opening article examines the first sighting of the sliteye shark in the waters of the Great Chagos Bank, written by Charlotte Oulton and Drs Holly Stokes, Kimberley Stokes, and Chagos Conservation Trust (CCT) Trustee Nicole Esteban from Swansea University’s Marine Conservation Ecology Lab.
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