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Kidney Island.Pdf PAYMENT DETAILS PLEASE COMPLETE IN BLOCK CAPITALS Protecting wildlife from invasive species GIFT AID Please use this form for both Penguin Adoption and Membership KIDNEY ISLAND purchase, completing the relevant sections. With Gift Aid on every £1 you give Superb site for land and sea birds us we can claim an extra 25p back Name _____________________________________________ from HM Revenue & Customs. To qualify, what you pay in UK Income Address ___________________________________________ 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 _____________________________________________ I notify you otherwise, as Gift Aid 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 Tax and/or Capital Gains Tax than PURCHASE INFORMATION the amount of Gift Aid claimed on * The wildlife on Kidney Island survives in such abundance because over the centuries all my donations in that tax year Penguin adoption for a year – £25 / $40 ■ it has been kept free of rats and mice. Cobb’s wren (above) cannot exist where there it is my responsibility to pay any are rats and other wildlife is severely reduced. Because birds are ground nesting, it is * difference. Membership fee payable crucial to all areas of wildlife importance in the Falkland Islands that invasive species (see overleaf for categories) ■ are kept at bay. Signed: ________________________ * *Please indicate £ sterling or US$ Donation ■ Date: __________________________ Please make cheques payable Total * To prevent the spread of invasive species and diseases, you are asked to comply to Falklands Conservation. ■ with a few simple measures when travelling around the islands: make sure all of your clothing, equipment and luggage is free from soil, animal faeces, seeds, insects DATA PROTECTION ■ I wish to pay by Visa/Mastercard (please tick) and rodents, and scrub your footwear before each visit to a new wildlife My card number is We respect your privacy. Falklands site or seabird colony. If you have any questions about biosecurity, or wish to Conservation will not make your report diseased wildlife, please speak to the landowners or call name and address available to other ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ the Department of Agriculture 27355 / Falklands Conservation 22247 for advice. organisations, and will treat your Expiry date details as confidential. If however, ■■ ■■ you would be happy to receive / ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS information, about other aspects of Signature __________________________________________ We wish especially to thank Paul Brickle and Robin Woods for their contributions to the text our work from time to time, please and the Falkland Islands Shallow Marine Surveys Group for permission to use the bathymetric tick the box . Cardholder’s name __________________________________ map. Photos: Paul Brickle, Margaret Carr, Craig Dockrill, Alan Henry, Allan White. Cardholder’s address (if different from applicant) Maps by 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 King Penguin Adoption l Adopt a king penguin at the remote colony of KIDNEY ISLAND Great shearwaters are found amongst this This is to certify that Volunteer Point in the Falkland Islands for £25/ has adopted dense area of sooty shearwater burrows. at US$40 for 12 months. 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 Kidney Island has a small population of to improve our understanding of these beautiful birds. Help conservation efforts to protect the penguins of This adoption is for one year from Cape Dolphin 350 km (280 miles) to the east of the South no more than 15 pairs but it is the only the Falklands. N American continent. It consists of two large l Salvador confirmed breeding site outside the far Receive a personalised adoption certificate, king Douglas D Johnsons N Station Harbour U Port San Carlos Port Dunbar O Louis S penguin photo and penguin pin badge. Hill Cove D D KIDNEY islands, East and West Falkland, and more Roy Cove N D Berkeley www.falklandsconservation.com Photo: Ruedi Abbühl A Teal away Tristan da Cunha group of islands. Mt Adam 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 ISLAND Crooked Inlet L N A 2297 F Murrell l A Bold Cove than 750 small islands and islets. Fern Mt Usborne A Port Receive updates from Falklands Conservation. Cape Ridge Chartres L STANLEY William The two shearwaters are summer residents Shallow L Pembroke Farm 2312 Harbour Mt Pleasant K K Bluff Cove Farm Darwin Airport Dunnose L L Fitzroy Head Goose Green A A arriving in September and departing in April. Beaver Spring A Yes, I would like to Adopt a Penguin! I ■ (payment form overleaf) Island Point F F N Ch Fox Bay oiseul Sound T East O Double F T Walker Creek They are both tremendous travellers, with Creek S A S Fox Bay Lively Island South E West L A 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 the great shearwater migrating as far north Port Stephens U O S Hoste Inlet D N someone else, if so just let us know the details. A Speedwell L K Island L A as Canada and some sooty shearwaters F 1500 Cape Meredith Bull Point I would like the adoption pack to be sent to: 1000 reaching Greenland. ■ 500 Kilometres 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 PLEASE WRITE IN BLOCK CAPITALS 0 Height in feet 0 10 20 30 40 Kidney Island is also one of only four known above sea level Miles nesting sites in the Falkland Islands for the White-chinned petrel Name _____________________________________________ Kidney Island lies about 0·5 km (546 yds) off the white-chinned petrel, locally known as Address ___________________________________________ coast of East Falkland, at the southern entrance to ‘the shoemaker’ (its ear-piercing, screaming a Vulnerable conservation status and are Berkeley Sound, 16 km (10 miles) from Stanley. trills are said to resemble a steel hammer listed under the international Agreement on ___________________________________________________ the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels Kidney Island is reached by a 30-minute boat ride tapping a small anvil). It is restricted to south- ___________________________________________________ facing slopes and is another burrowing bird, (ACAP). from Stanley. In summer, there are occasional evening Postcode __________________ Tel. ____________________ cruises around the Island to view the seabirds. excavating curved burrows in soft peat up Grey-backed storm petrels are believed to to 2 m deep. White-chinned petrels have nest in the tussac on the island. Email _____________________________________________ Cochon Island (8 ha, 20 acres) lies a short distance north-west of Kidney Island and, with Kidney Island, Penguin Name ______________________________________ makes up the Kidney Island Group Important Bird MEMBERSHIP Area FK09. l Join Falklands Conservation and help to protect the spectacular wildlife of the Falkland Islands.
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