The UK Government has just announced the creation of the World's Biggest Marine Reserve... a quarter of a million square miles of the Indian Ocean around the Chagos!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8599125.stm
GREAT!
However, .... the bitter pill is that the natural guardians of the Islands - the Chagossian people - are effectively banned from returning home following years of occupation by military forces.
Conservationists and marine scientists seem split - good for nature but perhaps also a touch of 'green point scoring' rather than ensuring a policy of effective long-term conservation:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article7085205.ece
What do you think?