http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Tue, 21 May 2013 22:19:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/05/21/chagos-conservationists-are-swimming-in-murky-waters/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/05/21/chagos-conservationists-are-swimming-in-murky-waters/#comments Tue, 21 May 2013 13:00:16 +0000 Dr Sean Carey http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=35051 "Being in Chagos is an incredibly special experience," says Rachel Jones, deputy team leader of the Aquarium at ZSL London Zoo, in a new YouTube posting extolling the "unique" environment of the warm, pristine waters of the Archipelago. "It's literally like going back in time… It's what reefs, I imagine, were like 50 or 60 years ago. She adds: "It's very special being somewhere where you know you're the only one there. There's no one else around."]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/05/21/chagos-conservationists-are-swimming-in-murky-waters/feed/ 0 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/12/17/the-european-court-of-human-rights-urgently-needs-to-decide-on-the-chagossians%e2%80%99-right-of-return/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/12/17/the-european-court-of-human-rights-urgently-needs-to-decide-on-the-chagossians%e2%80%99-right-of-return/#comments Mon, 17 Dec 2012 13:58:53 +0000 Dr Sean Carey http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=30856 Yesterday, Chagos Islanders in Mauritius, Seychelles and the UK learned that one of the stalwarts of the struggle for the right of return to their homeland, Charlesia Alexis, had died in Crawley.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/12/17/the-european-court-of-human-rights-urgently-needs-to-decide-on-the-chagossians%e2%80%99-right-of-return/feed/ 0 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/09/10/saving-our-seas-jellyfish-slime-and-the-chagos-islanders/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/09/10/saving-our-seas-jellyfish-slime-and-the-chagos-islanders/#comments Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:36:31 +0000 Dr Sean Carey http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=28288 "Have we left it too late to save our seas?" ran the headline above Frank Pope’s article in last Thursday's Times. The newspaper's Ocean Correspondent and occasional TV presenter issued a stark warning that unless action is taken to protect coral reefs and similar ecosystems around the world, then in the not too distant future the seas "will be dominated by jellyfish and slime".]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/09/10/saving-our-seas-jellyfish-slime-and-the-chagos-islanders/feed/ 6