Australia plans to evacuate the Cocos Islands over the next decade due to rising sea Levels

The authorities' project has sparked outrage among the more than 600 inhabitants of this territory, located 2,936 kilometers ...
UNESCO

Cocos Island National Park

Cocos Island National Park, located 550 km off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, is the only island in the tropical eastern Pacific with a tropical rainforest. Its position as the first point of ...
Yahoo

Government proposal to relocate island residents sparks fear and uncertainty: 'This is not an overnight decision'

Australia is proposing to relocate residents of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, a remote territory made up of 27 coral islands, as a countermeasure to the rising sea levels. Argophilia reported that ...
THE WEEK

The Cocos Islands: a remote Indian Ocean paradise

Few tropical archipelagos are quite as beautiful, remote and appealingly quirky as the Cocos Islands, said Ruaridh Nicoll in the Financial Times (FT). Isolated in the Indian Ocean 660 miles south of ...
The Tico Times

Cocos Island Bolsters Marine Defense with Cutting-Edge Radar Installation

The National System of Conservation Areas (SINAC) has installed a new radar in Cocos Island National Park, as part of the Marine Protection System for the Cocos Marine Conservation Area (ACMC). The ...
The Tico Times

Cocos Island to Receive $16 Million from GEF for Environmental Protection

Cocos Island will benefit from $16 million from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) for environmental protection. Authorities from Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, and Ecuador met this week in Costa ...