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Falkland Science Symposium celebrate Penguin Awareness Day

Wednesday, January 21st 2015 - 10:46 UTC
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The world’s northernmost colony of king penguins has something to celebrate this week, as Tuesday marks Penguin Awareness Day and these well dressed seabirds play host to an international group of scientists gathered to discuss the Falkland Islands’ rich potential for new research. Read full article

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  • Cruise ConTroll

    Penguin awareness day? So the Anglos are only aware of penguins one day of the year? That explain a lot of things. Poor Warrah. Maybe they would have had a chance had there been at least “one day” back then where they were not cold bloodedly murdered by greedy Anglos.

    In Argentina every day is penguin day, and every day is a day to cherish animals. EUian and NorthAmoan brutes and cranimals take notice.

    Jan 21st, 2015 - 01:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Briton

    murdered by greedy Anglos.
    [ I thought they were Falkland islanders ] lol

    In Argentina every day is penguin day
    quite agree ducky,, quack quack lol

    and every day is a day to cherish animals.
    Except the animals you kill for food...

    EUian and NorthAmoan brutes and cranimals take notice
    [--the quacks are on the war path,,,,lol

    Jan 21st, 2015 - 01:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ExPat 1987

    #1

    Really

    http://www.getducks.com/argentina-duck-hunting/

    http://www.getducks.com/argentina-duck-hunting/

    http://www.getducks.com/argentina-duck-hunting/

    Enough said

    Jan 21st, 2015 - 02:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Cruise ConTroll

    @3

    And all those cater to savage Anglo, EUian, and NorthAmoan foreign fiends. Not ONE argie engages in such activities, I don't know of any argie that hunts for fun.

    Just like Nisman's gun, foreign. Everything foreign should be banned somehow it is never a positive thing, always negative. Speaks loudly about the rotten societies all these ideas and products come from.

    Jan 21st, 2015 - 02:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Conqueror

    @1, 4. I think you're missing the point. The Falklands doesn't have an argie awareness day. You don't need a particular day to be aware of vermin.

    In argieland, there is no time to hunt penguins. Too busy hunting indigenous people, those who disagree with the 'government', those on the verge of exposing the 'government'. How nice it is for you to confirm your support for murder, cover-ups, lies, brutality, corruption, criminality, degeneracy, larceny, lunacy, mendacity and so forth. I am so looking foward to the year when your cesspit is exposed to the world for what it is. I expect your head to explode. A wonderful, useful by-product.

    Oh, do please ban all 'foreign' products. Seen what your 'country' buys? Fuel, computers, heavy machinery, toilet roll etc. etc. etc.

    Jan 21st, 2015 - 05:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    “Penguin Awareness Day”
    says the useless government of the islets...LOL

    “The Falkland Islands is South America’s most important penguin breeding site, but greed and corruption at the very highest level of government has resulted in the loss of over 5 million penguins. When a British biologist, funded by the British government to establish a penguin monitoring programme, began drawing attention to the disaster, he found himself at war with the Falkland Islands Government. For five years Mike Bingham and his family suffered police harassment, death threats, attacks on their property, and attempted deportation.”

    “Eventually Bingham took the Falkland Islands Government to the Supreme Court for Human Rights abuse, and won. The Governor, Chief Executive, Attorney General and elected members of Executive Council were ruled to have committed acts of human rights abuse that the Supreme Court described as ”morally and constitutionally indefensible“. This is the story of the Falklands Regime.”

    Jan 21st, 2015 - 05:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Skip

    Comment removed by the editor.

    Jan 21st, 2015 - 06:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Clyde15

    #4
    Such an animal loving and protectionist country..see below
    Threatened Species: The following list includes all mammals which occur in Argentina and are rated as Critically Endangered (CR), Endangered (EN) or Vulnerable (VU) in the 2004 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals.

    Critically Endangered:
    Short-tailed Chinchilla (Chinchilla brevicaudata).
    Endangered:
    Andean Cat (Oreailurus jacobita).
    Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus).
    Chacoan Peccary (Catagonus wagneri).
    Fin Whale (Balaenoptera physalus).
    Giant Armadillo (Priodontes maximus).
    Giant Otter (Pteronura brasiliensis).
    Lesser Pichi Ciego (Pink Fairy Armadillo) (Chlamyphorus truncatus). (Endemic to Argentina.)
    Marine Otter (Lontra felina).
    Sei Whale (Balaenoptera borealis).
    South Andean Deer (or Chilean Huemul) (Hippocamelus bisulcus).
    Southern River Otter (Lontra provocax).
    Vulnerable:
    Andean Hairy Armadillo (Chaetophractus nationi).
    Azara's Agouti (Dasyprocta azarae).
    Blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra). (Occurs here in introduced populations.)
    Brown Howler (Alouatta guariba (=fusca)).
    Bush Dog (Speothos venaticus).
    Fossorial Giant Rat (Kunsia fronto).
    Giant Anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla).
    Greater Pichi Ciego (Burmeister's Fairy Armadillo) (Chlamyphorus retusus).
    Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae).
    Kodkod (Chilean Cat) (Oncifelis guigna).
    Long-tailed Chinchilla (Chinchilla lanigera).
    Magellanic Tuco-tuco (Ctenomys magellanicus).
    Marsh Deer (Blastocerus dichotomus).
    Monito del Monte (Marsupial) (Dromiciops gliroides).
    Olrog's Chaco Mouse (Andagalomys olrogi). (Endemic to Argentina.)
    Patagonian Opossum (Lestodelphys halli). (Endemic to Argentina.)
    Red Myotis (Bat) (Myotis ruber).
    Red Vizcacha Rat (Tympanoctomys barrerai).(Endemic to Argentina.)
    Shrewish Short-tailed Opossum (Monodelphis sorex).
    Southern Myotis (Bat) (Myotis aelleni). (Endemic to Argentina.)
    Southern Pudu (Pudu pudu).
    Spectacled Bear (Tremarctos ornatus).
    Sperm Whale (Physeter catodon).
    Anglos don't live in Argentina...whose fault ?

    Jan 21st, 2015 - 06:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • CaptainSilver

    Toby, since you don't live there not surprising is it?

    Jan 21st, 2015 - 07:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • toooldtodieyoung

    1 TittyboiTobi & 6 BottyBoyPaulie

    Idiot Trolls!!! You are so 1 dimensional!!! This is why you two would lose a game of chess to cardboard cutouts of yourselves.

    It's not a day where “we are aware” of Penguin's!!

    FFS!!!

    It's celebrating the awareness that penguins have!!!

    You two are about as much use as a turd flavored lollypop. The day is to celebrate the penguin as a sentient being.

    Please, try and keep up with the rest of the class.

    Jan 21st, 2015 - 08:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • paulcedron

    tooimbecile
    “The day is to celebrate the penguin as a sentient being. ”
    says the pelotudo...lol
    and how do you celebreate it?
    killing 5 million more?

    stinky isleters....

    Jan 21st, 2015 - 08:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Briton

    ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
    and again
    ???????????
    relax.

    Jan 21st, 2015 - 08:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • falklandlad

    Interestingly Think hasn't raised a comment (thus far)... but @11 seems to hint at a like view! Sad that some posters don't really grasp the story, nor the headline.

    Jan 21st, 2015 - 08:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Briton

    King penguins breed on subantarctic islands between 45 and 55°S, at the northern reaches of Antarctica, as well as Tierra del Fuego, the Falkland Islands, and other temperate islands of the region. The total population is estimated to be 2.23 million pairs and is increasing.[3] The largest breeding populations are on Crozet Island, with around 455,000 pairs, 228,000 pairs on the Prince Edward Islands, 240,000–280,000 on the Kerguelen Islands and over 100,000 in the South Georgia archipelago. Macquarie Island has around 70,000 pairs

    Notable king penguins

    • These penguins appeared in the production of Batman Returns.
    • Opus the Penguin, a fictional character in the comic strips Bloom County, Outland, and Opus, is a king penguin and the most famous character of the comic strips.
    • Lala the Penguin became a viral video star after an Animal Planet special featured him venturing to a nearby market in Japan to fetch a fish with a specially made backpack.[28]
    • And also appeared on the wrappers of chocolate biscuit penguins,
    • No wonder they are studied ,


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    Jan 21st, 2015 - 09:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • CaptainSilver

    … and Adeles in the John Lewis Christmas ads…

    Jan 21st, 2015 - 11:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Briton

    Paulie just don't know nothing...lol

    Jan 22nd, 2015 - 12:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • redp0ll

    Pollywiggle Paulie is as his name suggests is a tadpole of limited interlect with ambitions to metamorphise into a foul mouthed frog

    Jan 22nd, 2015 - 12:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ilsen

    lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    5 Conqueror (#)
    The Falklands doesn't have an argie awareness day. You don't need a particular day to be aware of vermin.

    I never thought I would say it, but Conqueror surely wins the Internet prize of the day for that comment.
    Just spat wine over my keyboard Laughing Out Loud!!!!!!!!!!

    (No offence to moderate, intelligent Argentine people intended, just the trolls, Kirtchenerites etc.)
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    7 Skip (#)
    Jan 21st, 2015 - 06:08 pm Comment removed by the editor.

    Got censored on MP? Consider it a badge of honour!!
    :-)
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    @ 17 redp0ll

    A worthy Runner-Up for second funniest comment! Well Done!

    Jan 22nd, 2015 - 01:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Skip

    Argentines are so precious. They just can't stand hearing some things.

    And they get so upset over things in the Falklands that they can't control.

    Jan 22nd, 2015 - 01:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Klingon

    Penguin awareness day?? Is that where they hand out condoms to the Islanders to stop them infecting the Penguins with their interbred STDS?

    Jan 22nd, 2015 - 01:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ilsen

    @20
    I hope you are not suffering the same scarcity of condoms as you are with tampons?
    Venezuela 2:0 (version)
    Start stocking up on hygiene products, penguin porno is all you will have soon.... if you can keep the electricity on...

    Jan 22nd, 2015 - 03:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Marcos Alejandro

    “The world’s northernmost colony of king penguins has something to celebrate this week”

    Yes
    1 The English oil exploitation of Malvinas is collapsing.
    2 Darwin Lewis Clifton is getting older.
    3 Many read this link: http://www.falklands.net/FalklandsCorruption.shtml

    Jan 22nd, 2015 - 03:55 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ilsen

    22 Marcos Alejandro

    If what you say is true (?), then why do you have such a fanatical desire to possess these Islands?

    Jan 22nd, 2015 - 04:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Heisenbergcontext

    Great article. “Jackass Penguins”. Lol.

    Jan 22nd, 2015 - 05:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    @ 20 Klingon

    WTF!

    Why, when you appear a sensible person on all other topics do you have to make yourself look like a cunt on matters to do with the Falklands?

    You have been lied to all your life by what passes as a government in your country: do yourself a favour and read some internation books on the subject and learn the truth for yourself.

    Jan 22nd, 2015 - 10:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Clyde15

    #22
    An Argentinian complaining about “corruption” in the Falklands ?
    What a laugh !

    Jan 22nd, 2015 - 10:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Frank

    @14 I think a king ping featured in one of the Wallace and Grommets as the lodger...

    Jan 22nd, 2015 - 12:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Benson

    @25
    You notice that it's always the same article that he posts? Must try harder Marcos you're making people think that there has only ever been one incident of corruption in the history of the Falklands.

    Jan 22nd, 2015 - 12:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • darragh

    If you log onto http://www.herbs-info.com/cedron.html you will see that the cedron, a central American plant is also known as the 'rattlesnake weed'!!!!

    Jan 22nd, 2015 - 02:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Klingon

    @25 I just love winding the Islanders up.
    I couldn't care a rats ass about those windswept rocks!

    Jan 22nd, 2015 - 02:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • brianF.I

    @30 And i didn't give a fuck after i finished shagging you ugly mother

    Jan 22nd, 2015 - 02:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • toooldtodieyoung

    18 ilsen

    Glad you are back, it's been too long and always a pleasure to read your postings. No 18 is another fine example.

    If you would care to join us, the fishing here is particularly good.

    One has to only throw out a line and a bite is ensured!! ( as I have just proved at 10...... )

    Enjoy!!

    Jan 22nd, 2015 - 06:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Briton

    I couldn't care a rats ass about those windswept rocks

    Well at least we all know ONE person who would not fight for them.
    just talk the talk will do...lol

    Jan 22nd, 2015 - 07:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ilsen

    32 toooldtodieyoung
    Thank you. I like to 'do my bit' as it were...
    :-)

    Was in Vnzla recently, in the mountains outside of Mérida. Their beauty and majesty remains untouched and glorious but the country is on the verge of collapse.
    Back in North London now...
    No empty shelves here.... :-)

    Jan 23rd, 2015 - 01:53 am - Link - Report abuse 0

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