The Future Conservation of the Chagos
Added to website: 20 September 2007
You are cordially invited to a Chagos Conservation Trust Conference on 25 October 2007 at the Zoological Society of London Regents Park London entitled:
“The Future Conservation of the Chagos”
To download an invitation and reservation form please click here. I hope you can attend and will send me the form. If you cannot commit now but would like to keep in touch with CCT, please simply send me a reply to this email. If you would like to nominate others to attend, please do so.
The working conference will consider future challenges and possible solutions for the conservation of the Chagos, British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT).
Following an inauguration with distinguished guest speakers, there will be a sandwich lunch and plenty of opportunity for informal contact and discussion, and then working sessions whose provisional themes are: BIOT’s
natural environment; BIOT and climate change; Frameworks for internationally-supported conservation of Chagos, taking account of human settlement; BIOT’s coral and fisheries conservation and management; Priority projects for BIOT, and funding.
The conference will close, with wine, at 5pm.
This conference is held in association with the ZSL and the UK Overseas Territories Conservation Forum.
Simon E Hughes
Secretary Chagos Conservation Trust
(Incorporating Friends of the Chagos)
Any queries email: chagostrust@hotmail.com
The Chagos Conservation Trust (www.chagosconservationtrust.org) is a charity
(Registered in the UK No. 1031561), established in 1992, whose aims are to
promote conservation, scientific and historical research, and to advance
education concerning the archipelago. The Trust is a non political
association.
