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Environmentalists Slam Proposed Marine Sanctuary
Feb 17th 2010 – 3:09PM
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(Feb. 17) -- A plan to protect a pristine coral reef system located in one of the last remnants of Britain's colonial empire has encountered an unlikely opponent: environmentalists. The proposed sanctuary would span the majority of the Chagos Archipelago, a series of atolls approximately twice the size of Britain located...
Background on Chagossians
The Chagossians (also Îlois or Chagos Islanders) are an ethnic group who were the indigenous inhabitants of the Chagos Islands, British Indian Ocean Territory.
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