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What is the Chagos Conservation Trust, what does it do, and why? Watch and find out!

This footage supports research at Swansea University on the diet of immature hawksbill turtles in the Chagos Archipelago 🎥 The cameras remain attached for around 24 hours before automatically detaching and floating to the surface. This approach allows for a comprehensive diet analysis, combining dietary DNA metabarcoding, microbiome characterisation, stable isotope analysis, and animal-borne vi...

CCT's AGM 2024 Speaker Event was hosted by our Director, Sarah Puntan-Galea, with talks given on research projects happening in the Chagos which our charity is either involved with or supports: Dr Pete Carr, CCT (birds); Dr Joanna Harris, Manta Trust (rays); Rachel Jones, ZSL (plastic pollution); Dr David Curnick, Ocean Predator Lab. (sharks); Dr Claire Collins, Exeter Uni. (sharks); Dr Kimberl...

CCT's 2023 AGM, speed speaker event (in full)

Jon Slayer AGM 2023 talk '30 years of the Chagos Trust in photos and images'

Dr Pete Carr's 'Healthy Islands, Healthy Reefs' update at the Chagos Conservation Trust AGM 2023

AGM 2023 speaker event - Dr Bryan Wilson

To mark #WorldRewildingDay, watch our video about our #HealthyIslandsHealthyReefs #rewilding programme, which will remove invasive rats and manage coconut palms on 30 islands in the #Chagos Archipelago, allowing native vegetation to recover, and nesting seabirds to return, helping coral reef recovery and health. Read more about the project here: chagos-trust.org/our-work/hea... #ReadytoRewild #...

Discover the wonders of Turtle Cove, on Diego Garcia, in the Chagos Archipelago, with this stunning video by @JonSlayer

In 2006 coral scientists started a decade long monitoring project to document the changes to this reef in the Chagos Archipelago of the British Indian Ocean Territory. Nelson Island - The isolated oceanic reef Nelson Island forms part of the Great Chagos Bank, which is amongst the Atolls that lay claim to being “the largest Atoll in the world”. So large is the Great Chagos Bank, that many of it...

In 2006 coral scientists started a decade long monitoring project to document the changes to this reef in the Chagos Archipelago of the British Indian Ocean Territory. Bernard’s Knoll - The Underwater meadow Bernard’s Knoll is an unusual reef in that it is a site inside the Perhos Banhos lagoon, and has a maximum depth with is restricted to the maximum depth of the lagoon, and is flat or very g...

In 2006 coral scientists started a decade long monitoring project to document the changes to this reef in the Chagos Archipelago of the British Indian Ocean Territory. Ile du Passe - A Lagoon Fish Pass Most of the water exchange, which occurs from the open ocean into the shallow lagoon of the Salmon Atoll, travels through the deepest cut in the ring of coral reef islands that make up the Atoll....

Moresby - a sign of resilience?

Ile Fouquet - The resilient reef

Ile Anglaise Middle - A classic seaward site

Bringing Back the Birds

Ile Vache Marine Rat Eradication

Octopus Season in the Chagos MPA

Ile Vache Marine Bird Habitat Restoration Reconnaissance

Prof Charles Sheppard and Dr Elizabeth Widman speak on research in Chagos. CCT Conference 2013.

Nigel Wenban-Smith on the environmental history of the Chagos Islands. CCT Conference 2013.

Alistair Gammell presents on the campaign for the Chagos marine reserve. CCT conference 2013

Dr John Turner speaks on Darwin Initiative projects at Chagos 20/20, the CCT Conference 2013.

Footage from Sandes' Seamount, Chagos 2012

Underwater footage from Chagos 2012

Dr Heather Koldewey speaks at CCT's 20th Anniversary

Prof Charles Sheppard at CCT's 20th Anniversary

Allen Vincatassin on conservation work at Barton Point, Diego Garcia

Allen Vincatassin speaks on the Chagos Marine Reserve