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CAPE DOLPHIN Purchase, Completing the Relevant Sections PAYMENT DETAILS PLEASE COMPLETE IN BLOCK CAPITALS Plant diversity at the GIFT AID Please use this form for both Penguin Adoption and Membership CAPE DOLPHIN purchase, completing the relevant sections. Cape Dolphin Peninsula With Gift Aid on every £1 you give us we can claim an extra 25p back Name _____________________________________________ from HM Revenue & Customs. To PENINSULA qualify, what you pay in UK Income Address ___________________________________________ Most northerly mainland point of East Falkland and/or Capital Gains Tax must at least equal the Gift Aid all your ___________________________________________________ charities will reclaim in the tax year. ■ YES: I would like Falklands ___________________________________________________ Conservation to treat all the donations I have made in the last Postcode __________________ Tel. ____________________ four years, and all I will make until Email _____________________________________________ The Falkland Islands is a stronghold within the South Atlantic for breeding seabird I notify you otherwise, as Gift Aid populations. The landowners and managers of both Elephant Beach and Cape donations. I am a UK taxpayer and ■ Please tick this box if you would like to receive updates by email understand that if I pay less Income Dolphin Farms are invested in safe-guarding the unique natural environment they own, Tax and/or Capital Gains Tax than PURCHASE INFORMATION by carefully managing stock and monitoring any change to habitats. the amount of Gift Aid claimed on * Penguin adoption for a year – £25 / $40 Due to careful grazing management, there is also a variety of endemic and native all my donations in that tax year ■ plants, including the endemic clubmoss cudweed (above left), coastal nassauvia it is my responsibility to pay any * (above right) and vanilla daisy, and native plants including wild celery, balsam difference. Membership fee payable (see overleaf for categories) ■ bog, buttonweed and Gaudichaud’s orchid. Signed: ________________________ *Please indicate £ sterling or US$ * Visitors are strongly advised to use the Countryside Code as a guide to correct Donation ■ behaviour when in the vicinity of Falklands’ wildlife. For a copy of this code, and also a calendar detailing when to see key species at their most active, visit the Falklands Date: __________________________ Please make cheques payable Total * Conservation website: www.falklandsconservation.com/wildlife to Falklands Conservation. ■ DATA PROTECTION ■ I wish to pay by Visa/Mastercard (please tick) To prevent the spread of invasive species and diseases, you are asked to comply with a few simple measures when travelling around the islands: make sure all of We respect your privacy. Falklands My card number is your clothing, equipment and luggage is free from soil, animal faeces, seeds, insects Conservation will not make your and rodents, and scrub your footwear before each visit to a new wildlife name and address available to other ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ organisations, and will treat your site or seabird colony. If you have any questions about biosecurity, or wish to Expiry date report diseased wildlife, please speak to the landowners or call details as confidential. If however, ■■ ■■ you would be happy to receive / the Department of Agriculture 27355 / Falklands Conservation 22247 for advice. information, about other aspects of Signature __________________________________________ our work from time to time, please ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS tick the box . Cardholder’s name __________________________________ Photos: Stuart Bennett, James Fenton, Dan Fowler, Alan R Henry, Cardholder’s address (if different from applicant) Ali Liddle, Mike Morrison. Maps by Jeremy Smith and Robert Still. RETURN COMPLETED FORM TO: Published by Falklands Conservation July 2016. Designed by Eye on The Ball Ltd +44 1256 478309. Falklands Conservation, ___________________________________________________ Registered Office: 1 Waterloo Close, Abbotsley, St Neots, Cambridgeshire PE19 6UX, UK The Gatehouse, The Lodge, Falklands Conservation is a company limited by guarantee in England and Wales No 03661322 and registered charity No 1073859. Falklands Conservation is registered as an Overseas Company in the Falkland Islands. Sandy, Beds, SG19 2DL, UK ___________________________________________________ Falkland Office: Jubilee Villas, Ross Road, Stanley FIQQ 1ZZ | UK Office: The Gatehouse, The Lodge, Sandy, Beds SG19 2DL __________________________ Postcode ________________ Falklands Conservation works to conserve the wildlife of the Falkland Islands. To find out more about us and how you can support what we Have you considered a Standing Order? (UK BANK ACCOUNT HOLDERS ONLY) do, visit us at Jubilee Villas, Ross Road, Stanley or go to our website: This helps us keep our administration costs down. Either download the form from our website or set www.falklandsconservation.com up your own using the following details: Falklands Conservation, Barclays Bank, King George Information about other areas of outstanding wildlife and scenery, Street, Yeovil, Somerset BA20 1PX. Sort code: 20-99-40 / Account Number 90442542 can be found in A Visitor's Guide to the Falkland Islands. You can also purchase securely online at www.falklandsconservation.com/our-shop Falklands Conservation is a UK registered charity no. 1073859 and a company limited by guarantee in England and Wales no. 03661322. @FI_Conservation www.falklandsconservation.com ✃ PENGUIN ADOPTION FORM Regenerating Tussac for l King Penguin Adoption Adopt a king penguin at the remote colony of CAPE DOLPHIN PENINSULA This is to certify that Volunteer Point in the Falkland Islands for £25/ has adopted Falklands Wildlife US$40 for 12 months. at Volunteer Point on East Falkland, Falkland Islands, South Atlantic Ocean Volunteer Point is the most accessible breeding site for king penguins in the world. l Your adoption is protecting this important area and many other penguin colonies in the Falkland Islands. You are helping to fund research work by Falklands Conservation THE FALKLAND ISLANDS The Falkland Islands archipelago lies to improve our understanding of these beautiful birds. Help conservation efforts to protect the penguins of Tussac grass, which can grow to over 10 ft (3 m) tall and This adoption is for one year from Cape Dolphin 350 km (280 miles) to the east of the South the Falklands. N American continent. It consists of two large live for 300 years or more, forms the single most important l Salvador Receive a personalised adoption certificate, king Douglas D Johnsons N Station Harbour U Port San Carlos Port Dunbar O wildlife habitat in the Falklands. Of the 60–65 bird species Louis S penguin photo and penguin pin badge. Hill Cove D islands, East and West Falkland, and more D Roy Cove N D Berkeley www.falklandsconservation.com Photo: Ruedi Abbühl Mt Adam A Teal Port L Long Island Sound Falklands Conservation is the charity taking action for nature in the Falkland Islands. It is a UK registered charity number: 1073859 San Carlos Registered Office: 14 East Hatley, Sandy, Bedfordshire, SG19 3JA, UK. Falklands Office: 41 Ross Road, Stanley, Falkland Islands, FIQQ 1ZZ N Howard K Inlet Crooked Inlet L N A 2297 F Murrell breeding in the Islands, 46 use tussac for either nesting l A Bold Cove than 750 small islands and islets. Fern Mt Usborne A Port Receive updates from Falklands Conservation. L STANLEY Cape William Shallow Ridge Chartres L Pembroke Farm 2312 Harbour K Mt Pleasant Farm K Bluff Cove or feeding. Seals use tussac as shelter for breeding or as Darwin Airport Dunnose L L Fitzroy Head Goose Green A A Beaver Spring A Yes, I would like to Adopt a Penguin! I ■ (payment form overleaf) Island Point F F N C a hauling up ground. It is a habitat rich in invertebrates, h Fox Bay oiseul Sound T East O Double F T Walker Creek Creek S A S Fox Bay Lively Island South E West L A many unique to the Islands. Cape Harbour You may wish to Adopt a Penguin as a gift or on behalf of Orford W Port Edgar E North D N Arm Port Stephens U O S Hoste Inlet D N someone else, if so just let us know the details. A Speedwell L The extent of tussac cover has dramatically declined by K Island L FA 1500 Cape Meredith Bull Point some 81%, from an original estimated area of 22,000 hectares to only 4,000–5,000 1000 ■ I would like the adoption pack to be sent to: 500 Kilometres 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 hectares today. No more than 65 hectares remain in the two main islands. Not only has this PLEASE WRITE IN BLOCK CAPITALS 0 Height in feet 0 10 20 30 40 above sea level Miles seriously depleted the available wildlife habitat, but in many places has caused the soil to dry Name _____________________________________________ out resulting in serious soil erosion. The Cape Dolphin peninsula and associated Address ___________________________________________ coastline is situated at the northernmost tip of East For farmers, tussac is important as a grazing resource and winter shelter. It starts growth Falkland, 60 miles (96 km) from Stanley. Locally earlier than any of the other native or introduced grasses and remains palatable all year ___________________________________________________ known as ‘The Cape Point’, it marks the point of East round. For these reasons, farmers and conservationists both share ___________________________________________________ Falkland waters where the North Falkland Sound a common interest in its establishment, management and long-term protection. Postcode __________________ Tel. ____________________ ends, and the
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