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PENGUIN WATCH Our guests have played a crucial role in penguin conservation by making generous donations during our onboard auctions. These funds support field operations, covering costs for over 12 researchers annually and enabling vital coordination and capacity-building. Guest contributions also support a dedicated research coordinator position, which has expanded the project beyond its core research team, and facilitated partnerships with Chilean researchers in the Beagle Channel and Falklands Conservation to increase monitoring capacity. Thanks to guest support, Penguin Watch has achieved major conservation victories. Its research informed a five-year Marine Protected Area review in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, leading to expanded protections for penguin and seal foraging areas and whale corridors. It also helped establish a terrestrial protected area in the Danger Islands. Penguin Watch’s impact extends to policy, with researchers providing evidence to the UK Parliament on Antarctic biodiversity threats. Guest donations also fund the development of AI technology for rapid, open-access seabird counts, which benefit penguin scientists around the globe.
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UK ANTARCTIC HERITAGE TRUST The UK Antarctic Heritage Trust (UKAHT) helps people discover, understand, value and protect Antarctica. They care for seven designated Historic Sites and Monuments on the Antarctic Peninsula, which represent early climate science and exploration through modest wooden buildings, ships and artifacts that hold extraordinary stories of human survival and discovery. UKAHT also plays an advisory role in the protection of heritage in the UK-Overseas Territory and collaborates on long-standing penguin monitoring studies and is leading conservation management for Sir Ernest Shackleton’s recently discovered Endurance shipwreck. Caring for Antarctic heritage presents significant challenges, requiring high levels of cost, expertise and resilience. Guest auction funds are essential for delivering conservation programs that protect rare and vulnerable heritage sites. Donations also help UKAHT deliver ambitious conservation programs, preserve unique heritage sites, and advance its mission to inspire people to discover and learn about Antarctica.
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