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THE CHAGOS ARCHIPELAGO - A PETITION

Some of you will recall the debates about the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean when it was made an MPA on 1 April 2010. These islands used to contain the best coral reefs in the Indian Ocean.

There are 55 remote coral islands which were the former home of the indigenous Chagossians who were deported without warning from their ancestral homes by the British Government between 1965 and 1973. On the southernmost island of Diego Garcia there is an US military base.

SPEAK - Human Rights and Environmental Initiative - has created a petition which it is asking anyone throughout the world to sign. Please visit their website at http://www.speakhumanrights.org/en/ and support them.

Thomas J. Goreau, PhD

President, Global Coral Reef Alliance

President, Biorock International Corp.

Coordinator, United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development Partnership in New Technologies for Small Island Developing States

37 Pleasant Street, Cambridge MA 02139

617-864-4226

goreau@bestweb.net

http://www.globalcoral.org

Skype: tomgoreau

No one can change the past, every one can change the future