Chagos Islands: Fortress Conservation Trumps Human Rights? The “Marine Protected Area” In The Chagos Archipelago

Chagos Islands: Fortress Conservation Trumps Human Rights? The “Marine Protected Area” In The Chagos Archipelago   Peter H. Sand, 2012   The new “marine protected area” proclaimed in 2010 in the Chagos Archipelago (British Indian Ocean Territory [BIOT]) raises a fundamental conflict between colonial nature protection and the human rights of the indigenous Chagos islanders who were expelled to make way for a U.S. military base, and whose resettlement in the archipelago the U.K....

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