Falkland Islands

Thursday, September 9th 2021 - 08:50 UTC
British Pavilion in Expo Prado focuses on climate change; Falklands stand promotes trade and tourism

The British Embassy will be present at the Uruguayan Expo Prado 2021 for the eighth consecutive year with a pavilion focused on promoting different initiatives to help combat climate change. In November this year, the UK will host the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP26, in Glasgow, Scotland.
Tuesday, September 7th 2021 - 09:09 UTC
Falkland Islands Government launches flagship Environment Strategy 2021/2040

The Falkland Islands Government launched on Monday its flagship Environment Strategy 2021 – 2040, which recognises the central and universal role that the natural environment plays in the sustainable development of our health and wellbeing, our economy and our nation as a whole.
Saturday, September 4th 2021 - 12:05 UTC
Falklands stand at Montevideo Show: as a matter of courtesy UK ambassador informed her Argentine peer

As a “matter of courtesy” on Friday UK ambassador in Uruguay Faye O'Connor informed her Argentine peer, Alberto Iribarne that in the coming agribusiness show in Prado 2021 the Falkland Islands will have a stand.
Friday, September 3rd 2021 - 08:04 UTC
South Georgia stamp release to celebrate the return of whales to the recovered ecosystem

The Government of South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands announced the release of a new stamp set to celebrate the recovering ecosystem of the Territory and in particular whales, according to the latest edition of the South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands Government Newsletter.
Saturday, August 28th 2021 - 09:55 UTC
Genetic material of Argentine 1982 combatants lands in Córdoba for DNA testing

Argentine forensic anthropologist Luis Fondebrider, at the service of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Thursday landed in Córdoba in a private flight from the Falkland Islands carrying genetic material to be used in determining the identity combatants buried in grave C.1.10 at Darwin's military cemetery.
Friday, August 27th 2021 - 08:15 UTC
Argentina and Uruguay ladies love and celebrate the Falklands

Ladies support for the Falkland Islands in the River Plate is expanding. As happened just a few weeks ago in Buenos Aires when two historians, one of them with an international reputation, acknowledged the Falklands belong to the Falkland Islanders and doubt Argentina's claim, in Uruguay a member from a ruling coalition junior party last 14 August twitted the hashtag “HappyFalklandsDay”.
Thursday, August 26th 2021 - 11:55 UTC
Falkland’s ExCo agrees to proceed with improved ITQ scheme

Yesterday the Executive Council (ExCo) approved the referral of the Fisheries (Conservations and Management) (Amendment) Bill 2021 to the Legislative Assembly next month.
Thursday, August 26th 2021 - 08:50 UTC
Project with Falklands' SAERI to safeguard South Georgia’s Blue Belt

Following a horizon scanning exercise that identified marine invasive species as a key threat, the Government of South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands (GSGSSI) is embarking on a marine bio-security project with the Falkland Islands based South Atlantic Environmental Research Institute (SAERI).
Tuesday, August 24th 2021 - 09:02 UTC
Falklands Police finds no evidence of human remains at Teal Inlet; Red Cross satisfied with excavation results

The Royal Falkland Islands Police (RFIP) has continued to investigate reports of a burial site at Teal Inlet, alleged to contain the remains of unidentified Argentine soldiers.
Monday, August 23rd 2021 - 09:21 UTC
Patagonia Top Gear cars with Falklands' war plate number reference, crushed by Argentina

Have you ever wondered what happened to Jeremy Clarkson and his Top Gear crew cars involved in the Argentine Patagonia incursion, which triggered a major diplomatic controversy since the number plate of the Porsche 928 read H982 FKL and was interpreted in Argentina as referring to the 1982 Falklands conflict?