Far South Expeditions actively supports BirdLife bird conservation efforts as member of their “Species Champions / Preventing Species Extinctions” programmes since 2015.
In addition to that, we are an active member of the “Adventure Travel Conservation Fund” (ATCF) run by the Adventure Travel Trade Association.
We also support AvesChile / UNORCH, the Chilean Ornithologist Union, by sponsoring the publication of their scientific journal “Revista Chilena de Ornitología”. This is the most important publication gathering professional ornithologists and amateur birders, promoting their research work and conservation efforts.
Far South Expeditions is involved in sponsoring the field work and conservation efforts of the critically endangered mainland population of Ruddy-headed Goose (Chloephaga rubidiceps). Few hundred individuals of these migratory geese breed, in the Magellan Straits and Tierra del Fuego. Far South Expeditions is financially and logistically supporting researchers to conduct their assessment on the genetic status and population figures of this goose.
Our company is deeply committed with environmental education and has produced, since our initial years, several publications and field guides to educate and encourage the locals and visitors about our natural world. In 2016 we published the long-awaited “Aves de Chile”, a field guide to the birds of Chile, in Spanish, which has been tremendously received by the eager local audience. We think that this kind of effort goes in direct benefit of the conservation of our biodiversity and habitats as well as increasing the awareness of the locals in relation to their environment and its protection.
