[Coral-List] Chagos Marine Protected Area - Fortress conservation at sea: a commentary on the Chagos marine protected area.

Richard Dunne RichardPDunne at aol.com
Fri Sep 17 08:46:22 EDT 2010


  Dear Listers

My attention has been drawn to a new paper which is shortly to appear in 
the journal 'Marine Policy'.

Fortress conservation at sea: a commentary on the Chagos marine 
protected area.
De Santo EM, Jones PJS, Miller AMM
Marine Policy (in press)

Abstract
The world’s largest no-take Marine Protected Area in Chagos is examined 
in light of the Convention on Biological Diversity’s provisions on 
Access and Benefit Sharing, as well as terrestrial experiences with 
fortress conservation. It is acknowledged that this closure presents a 
unique opportunity to preserve an ecologically ‘pristine’ area. However, 
the means by which the political process unfolded are brought into 
question. In particular, the fact that the UK proceeded with designating 
the area whilst the European Court of Human Rights was deliberating the 
right of native Chagossians to return to the island is questioned. In 
addition it is argued that the scale of the area poses significant 
management and enforcement challenges, which are not necessarily taken 
into consideration in the rush for large, no-take Marine Protected Areas.

A pre-publication copy is freely available to download from 
http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfwpej/pdf/ChagosFortressConservation.pdf


-- 
Richard P Dunne




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