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Montevideo, July 13th 2025 - 18:14 UTC

Falkland Islands

  • Wednesday, April 2nd 2025 - 09:40 UTC

    Falklands Peatlands Project, progress and updates

    The team visited our field sites nearly 200 times, spent over 100 days out in the field, and collected almost 3,000 chamber flux measurements!

    Dr. Valeria Mazzola - It is hard to believe, but the Falkland Peatlands Project has officially marked its first year—and what a year it’s been! From day one, it’s been an incredibly dynamic and action-packed journey.

  • Tuesday, April 1st 2025 - 22:08 UTC

    Falkland Islands, Dr Andrea Clausen begins work as FIG Chief Executive

     Dr Andrea Clausen last job was FIG Director of Natural Resources, responsible for Fisheries, Agriculture, Veterinary, Biosecurity, Maritime, and potential new area in Aquaculture.

    Dr Andrea Clausen officially begins her work today (1 April 2025) as the Falkland Islands Government’s (FIG) Chief Executive. She was appointed in October 2024 to be the next Chief Executive and is both the first female and the first Falkland Islander to take on the role. Previous to her new role, Andrea served as the FIG Director of Natural Resources following her previous experience in the private sector and as an Elected Member.

  • Tuesday, April 1st 2025 - 19:55 UTC

    April 2 Malvinas Day to further showcase rift in Argentine gov't

    Villarruel has a separate agenda from that of the President, Malvinas or otherwise

    The April 2 Malvinas War Veteran's Day holiday will showcase the rift in the Argentine Government much more than it would highlight any question of sovereignty and patriotism. While President Javier Milei will head the ceremony in the Buenos Aires district of Retiro, where a cenotaph remembers thhose fallen in the 1982 conflict, Vice President Victoria Villarruel -who was not invited- is to attend an event in Ushuaia to join a group of former combatants, which her late father also was.

  • Thursday, March 27th 2025 - 17:10 UTC

    Falklands Defense Force SAR exercise in Mount realistic scenario

    This even when the SAR helicopter was not able to come

    This week the Falkland Islands Defense Force, FIDF, conducted a Search and Rescue (SAR) EXERCISE call-out, three walkers in the area of Mt Vernet visiting the Kiwi Hunt memorial on the top, a realistic scenario.

  • Thursday, March 27th 2025 - 08:25 UTC

    Falklands’ cricket team returns to Costa Rica after 14 years with an excellent performance

    The former Ambassador in Uruguay, Lyster-Binns with the Falklands cricket team which had an outstanding performance

    The recently concluded visit of the Falkland Islands cricket team to Costa Rica marked a historic occasion, as the team returned after a 14-year absence to participate in a tournament. It was also an opportunity for the Islanders to meet British Ambassador to Costa Rica, Ben Lyster-Binns, a good friend of the Falklands which he visited while a previous appointment as British ambassador in Uruguay.

  • Thursday, March 27th 2025 - 08:12 UTC

    Falklands, maintenance work on a historic bridge

    The steel bridge was designed and supplied from England and assembled in 1928

    The Falklands Public Works Department Highways Section would like to advise the public that maintenance to the Malo Bridge is scheduled to take place on Wednesday 26th March 2025.

  • Wednesday, March 26th 2025 - 10:56 UTC

    The Falkland Islands have become surprisingly diverse, reports The Spectator

    Go to one of Stanley’s shops, offices, restaurants, or the sheep farms in the more remote areas, and you’ll meet people hailing from far-flung corners of the world.

    By Robert Taylor - What springs to mind when you think of the Falklands? You might imagine the wild, windswept landscape, sparsely populated by the sheep-farming communities that have made the Islands their home for nearly 200 years.

  • Wednesday, March 26th 2025 - 05:40 UTC

    Falklands Sea Lion oil development FID expected by midyear, Rockhopper reports

    Rockhopper intends to commission its own Independent Resource Evaluation which will be published later this year.

    A final investment decision (FID) for the Sea Lion development offshore the Falkland Islands could be reached in mid-2025, according to Rockhopper, which is partner in the project with the operator Navitas Petroleum from Israel.

  • Wednesday, March 26th 2025 - 05:38 UTC

    Falklands, Uruguayan scientists talk on advanced technology for wildlife conservation

    The official poster inviting to the talk this Wednesday at 17:00 in Falkland College

    Two advanced students from the School of Electronic Engineering from the main government university in Uruguay, Universidad de la Republica, are currently in the Falkland Islands and will be giving an insightful talk on AURORA, a solar powered wildlife monitoring device, this Wednesday March 26, at 17:00 hour in the Falkland College.

  • Wednesday, March 26th 2025 - 05:19 UTC

    Jessica Toale MP visit to Falklands: Veterans deserve better than empty promises

    MP Jessica Toale during her visit to Falklands next to the tail of a jet fighter

    The following column was written in the Bournemouth Daily Echo by Jessica Toale, Labour MP for Bournemouth West. I recently visited the Falkland Islands with members of the British Armed Forces – part of a program I’m taking part in to gain a better understanding of the UK’s defense capabilities and the experiences of our service personnel.