Falklands Conservation - Adopt a Penguin!

Last year the team in the office very kindly gave me a special gift for a (ahem!) 'significant' birthday. For someone who's particularly fond of our feathered Antarctic friends, it was perfect!  I do hope that my adopted king penguin, 'Happy' is still hopping around somewhere on the Falkland Islands, true to his name happily collecting pebbles and nesting with a lovely mate.  I shall spare a thought for him tomorrow as another year passes, and hope that his next adoptive parent is as pleased with the gift of 'Happy' as I was.....

Watch out for our new Falkland Islands land-based tours in our NEW POLAR JOURNEYS BROCHURE - due out mid-October.  Our two leading itineraries both visit the wildlife sanctuary of Volunteer Point, where visitors can watch various penguin species in wonder, most notably around 1,200 adult majestic king penguins live here in their masses.  The Conservation Trust ensures that visitors do not approach too close and that these beautiful birds are undisturbed. 

Falkland Islands Conservation does a sterling job at preserving the wildlife in the remote and beautiful islands.  They monitor and protect the penguins, seals, birdlife etc. etc. on the archipelago, and have offices in Stanley (Falkland Islands) as well as London.

To support them, or adopt your own penguin, visit their website.  You can purchase books or notelets via their online shop. With Christmas looming large, and cards in the shops already, why not buy penguin Christmas cards that actually benefit the penguins directly?!  Now that's an idea....

Comments

[Nikki]

Hi Polly
If you click through onto the links in the blog you will find that you will be directed to the Falkland Islands Conservation's website, where you can adopt a penguin! Perhaps you might like to give the gift as an Easter or Birthday present now that Christmas has passed for this year! Cheers.

[Polly Vacher]

I would like to adopt a penguin for a Xmas present but you make it impossible and there is no phone number to ring either!!

Polly Vacher

[Nikki]

Hi there Mowgli. We will have the new brochure available for viewing online, but unfortunately we won't have the whole brochure available for download; you will be able to download individual pages, or alternatively please contact us and we can then either email you the brochure or post you a copy. Thanks! Nikki

[MOGLi]

Hi, Mogli from Sweden here! Great xmas gift idea indeed. Btw, will this upcoming brochure be available for download in this site? Thanks.