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Montevideo, December 21st 2025 - 20:11 UTC

Tag: UK Overseas Territories Biodiversity Strategy

  • Monday, December 1st 2025 - 07:44 UTC

    UK Overseas Territories’ wildlife hotspots to benefit under new strategy

    Fur seal in front of Mount Sugartop, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands. Credit - Vicki Foster Insta @vicki.foster

    For first time UK government and all our Overseas Territories unite behind a joint ambitious and actionable biodiversity strategy. This strategy is published as leaders from the UK Overseas Territories and UK Ministers gathered in London for the Joint Ministerial Council. UK’s Overseas Territories are home to 94% of the UK’s unique species and a quarter of the world’s penguins. In total over 1,800 endemic species live in the Overseas Territories.

  • Monday, December 1st 2025 - 07:23 UTC

    Falklands welcomes publication of the UK Overseas Territories Biodiversity Strategy

    Home to more than 90% of the UK’s unique species, many found nowhere else on Earth

    The Falkland Islands Government (FIG) welcomes the launch of the new UK Overseas Territories (UKOT) Biodiversity Strategy, developed jointly by the UK and Overseas Territories to protect some of the world’s most precious wildlife and ecosystems.