Tag: Blue Belt Program

• Friday, November 10th 2023 - 10:35 UTC

  UK “must expand the Blue Belt” in Overseas Territories to shield the Antarctic from Chinese industrial fishing

  

  By Sir Oliver Heald (*) The UK’s Blue Belt Programme for ocean conservation in our Overseas Territories is one of the Conservative Party’s biggest environmental achievements of the past thirteen years.

• Friday, July 22nd 2022 - 08:46 UTC

  Krill surveys in South Georgia conducted by fishery patrol MV Pharos SG

  

  The second of six winter krill surveys in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands is underway. The first winter krill survey was completed successfully on board the South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands fishery patrol vessel MV Pharos SG in May this year.

• Wednesday, November 10th 2021 - 08:19 UTC

  South Georgia releases Blue Belt Program stamps

  

  The Government of South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands is releasing a stamp set to celebrate its involvement in the UK Blue Belt Program.