he World Parks Congress (WPC) Marine Theme has partnered with Google, Mission Blue, and the Online Ocean Symposium to deliver a series of LIVE Google+ Hangouts to open up the discussion about ocean issues to an online audience! Join participants as they discuss innovative ocean survey technologies, large-scale MPAs, high seas conservation, locally-managed MPAs, and the Great Barrier Reef rezoning. CCTs Chairman, Prof Charles Sheppard OBE, will be on the panel for a discussion on large-scale MPAs on the 17th November. For more information follow this link.

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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