Falkland Islands

• Tuesday, January 14th 2014 - 18:34 UTC

  Falklands fisheries will come under attack from Argentina so as to 'strangle the Islands'' economy

  

  Argentina is preparing a battery of instruments to attack the Falklands fisheries and involved fishing companies with the purpose of 'strangling the economy' of the Islands thus forcing the UK to sit and dialogue on South Atlantic Islands sovereignty, according to a piece by La Nacion columnist Martín Dinatale.

• Tuesday, January 14th 2014 - 13:12 UTC

  South Georgia grey-headed albatross added to the 'endangered species' list

  

  Encouraging and bad news for albatrosses: while the black-browed has been down-listed from 'near threatened' the grey-headed albatross is in rapid decline and considered “endangered” mainly because of fishing activities, reports the latest edition of the South Georgia Newsletter.

• Tuesday, January 14th 2014 - 07:23 UTC

  Prison sentences for those who drill for oil in Malvinas waters, warns Argentina

  

  ”Argentina will defend its claim” over the Malvinas Islands and companies drilling for oil off the coast of the contested resource-rich archipelago “will not only face administrative consequences but also prison sentences” warned Daniel Filmus, head of Argentina's recently created Malvinas Islands Secretariat, in an interview with The Guardian.

• Monday, January 13th 2014 - 06:42 UTC

  Falklands' Scot Guards veterans donate a priceless crafted whiskey bottle

  

  Two 1982 Falkland Islands conflict veteran Scots Guards and the brother of the last man to be killed in action just 30 minutes before the surrender of the Argentine invaders on June 14 visited the Islands last week and made valuable donations to the Museum and the Cubs and Scout groups.

• Monday, January 13th 2014 - 06:30 UTC

  Busy November in South Georgia with 11 cruises, yachts and HMS Protector

  

  November was a busy month for cruise vessels: eleven cruise ships visited South Georgia between the 9th and 29th, according to the South Georgia Newsletter. One cruise ship, Ortelius, reached the rarely visited South Sandwich Islands and was able to put scientist Tom Hart ashore on Saunders Island where he took soil samples and set up two camera-traps to monitor the penguin colonies.

• Monday, January 13th 2014 - 06:17 UTC

  South Georgia will issue two-year licenses for toothfish and icefish

  

  The government of South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands has announced it will issue two-year fishing licenses to companies who successfully apply to fish for toothfish and icefish in the SGSSI Maritime Zone, reports the South Georgia Newsletter latest edition.

• Friday, January 10th 2014 - 06:46 UTC

  Falklands oil industry will have its 'Made in USA' dock facility in Stanley harbor

  

  The Falkland Islands budding oil and gas industry advanced a further step this week when the Falklands' Planning and Building Committee gave planning permission to a temporary dock facility (TDF) in Stanley harbor that will provide logistics support to exploration drilling.

• Thursday, January 9th 2014 - 15:03 UTC

  Active online poll from “The Telegraph” shows Falklands should be under Argentine sovereignty

  

  According to an active online poll released in the British newspaper “The Daily Telegraph”, a clear majority, almost double, of the voters affirmed that the Falklands Islands should be under Argentina’s sovereignty. Almost half the majority of respondents rejected the idea and supported Britain, while the rest answered that the territory should be under “shared sovereignty.”

• Tuesday, January 7th 2014 - 23:43 UTC

  Falklands and Atlantic patrol HMS Richmond commended by Commander La Forte

  

  Falkland Islands based Commander British Forces South Atlantic Islands, Air Commodore Russell La Forte CBE presented HMS Richmond with his personal Commendation in recognition of Distinguished Service in the region by the Type 23 Duke Class frigate during her Atlantic Patrol Tasking.

• Monday, January 6th 2014 - 06:36 UTC

  Falkland Islands: Tory MPs furious with Cameron over aid programs to Argentina

  

  Even when there has been no official reply from London to Argentina's message to mark the 181th anniversary (January 3) of what it considers “the usurpation of our Malvinas Islands”, there was a strong reaction from Tory MPs when it was revealed that UK contributes several million pounds in aid programs to Argentina.