Island Conservation in the Mozambique Channel
The April 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine has a fantastic photo-essay on two French islands of the Mozambique Channel: Europa and Bassas da India. The article describes the pristine marine environments around the islands along with some amazing dive shots. I was privileged enough to work on Europa Island throughout 2008, not on the marine environment but its terrestrial environment (Bassas da India is submerged at high-tide and so terrestrial conservation is somewhat outside its scope). Europa and Bassas da India are two of five island groups which make up the Îles Éparses (literally ‘Scattered Islands‘), a collection of French island territories in the Western Indian Ocean administered by the Terres Australes et Antarctiques Françaises (TAAF) since 2007.
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