Recently a Blue Belt Programme team travelled to the Turks & Caicos Islands to support the facilitation of a workshop on Sargassum influxes. What is a Sargassum influx? Sargassum is a brown seaweed of the order of Fucales. Sargassum is …
The Blue Belt is the UK Government’s flagship international marine conservation Programme. Since 2016 it has worked closely with a number of UKOTs to assist them in creating and maintaining healthy and productive ecosystems. Find out more about the work of this Programme and UK Overseas Territories in protecting some of the most unique and biodiverse environments on the planet.
From the vast penguin colonies of South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands to the coral reefs of the Pitcairn Islands, the UK Overseas Territories in total contain around 90% of the UK’s recorded biodiversity. Find out more about some of these incredible Territories and their role in protecting huge areas of ocean.