Adopt a Penguin GIFT
Adopt a Penguin GIFT
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Your gift adoption supports our gentoo penguin monitoring at Port Lockroy in Antarctica to better understand the health of the population and protect their habitat.
Your 12-month gift adoption includes:
- A welcome pack with exclusive soft gentoo toy, fact booklet, certificate, postcard, bookmark and sticker.
- A postcard sent from Antarctica between November and March.
- Email updates from our wildlife monitor.
- Our biannual UKAHT magazine Antarctic Times.
We will send the welcome pack to the delivery address and the postcard and magazine to the recipient's address.
How does an adoption help the penguins?
Penguins are important animals within Antarctica's precious ecosystem. We work with scientists from the British Antarctic Survey to study our neighbouring gentoos at Port Lockroy. Our study, which started in 1996 – the longest-running research of its kind – provides data on population size and breeding success, allowing us to better understand how the penguins are adapting to a changing environment.
Your adoption will support the monitoring of the colony by our wildlife monitor, Maggi. Funds go directly to paying for a wildlife monitor to travel to Antarctica and study the penguin colony at Port Lockroy for the austral summer. With your help, we can protect areas of the island from human interaction and continue studying the breeding success of the gentoos every year.
Together we can protect Antarctica’s past, present and future
Securing the physical heritage in Antarctica for future generations underpins everything we do. The task is unceasing, but now, in the face of a changing climate, those challenges are more acute.
We are witness to the real impacts on fragile heritage of a warmer, wetter, stormier Antarctic climate. Increased rainfall and warmer temperatures lead to flooding, mould growth and heavy snow loads.
By shopping with us, you are helping the charity in its mission to connect people with the wonder of Antarctica. Every purchase supports our work to conserve the continent’s historic sites, share its stories of human endeavour and influence policy makers to protect this precious place for future generations.
Thank you.
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Delivery
For orders placed before noon, we aim to dispatch the same day.
Orders are dispatched Monday to Friday, excluding UK national holidays.
UK Shipping
- Free delivery in the UK
- Please allow 3-5 working days
- Our orders are shipped with Royal Mail with a trackable service
International Shipping
- EU £7.99 (please allow 3-5 working days)
- Rest of the World £12.99 (please allow 5-10 working days)
- Our orders are shipped with Deutsche Post with a trackable service
Import duties and customs
Please note that products delivered to countries outside the UK may be subject to taxes, fees and other costs that are charged by their local legislation.
The recipient of the products is responsible for any of these additional charges so we recommend that you find out what import charges are applicable in the country you are shipping to before ordering.
Customer Help
For more information regarding your order, please do not hesitate to contact sales@ukaht.org.