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Environment - current issues Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), in 34 editions.

The entry for Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) published Environment - current issues in 34 editions of 36, from 1990 to 2024. The text changed in 6 editions. Each is shown as published. Environment - current issues in every entry.

editions changed the text
6
the first edition with it
1990
the latest edition with it
2024

Published as “Environment” (1990 to 1996), “Environment - current issues” (1997 to 2024), “Environment-current issues” (1998) and “Environment--current issues” (1999).

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2024 edition

Same as 2023

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The same text in 7 editions, 2018 to 2024.

  • overfishing by unlicensed vessels is a problem;
  • reindeer - introduced to the islands in 2001 from South Georgia - are part of a farming effort to produce specialty meat and diversify the islands' economy;
  • this is the only commercial reindeer herd in the world unaffected by the 1986 Chornobyl disaster;
  • grazing threatens important habitats including tussac grass and its ecosystem with penguins and sea lions;
  • soil erosion from fires

overfishing by unlicensed vessels is a problem; reindeer - introduced to the islands in 2001 from South Georgia - are part of a farming effort to produce specialty meat and diversify the islands' economy; this is the only commercial reindeer herd in the world unaffected by the 1986 Chornobyl disaster disaster; grazing threatens important habitats including tussac grass and its ecosystem with penguins and sea lions; soil erosion from fires

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Central Intelligence Agency. “Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas): Environment - current issues.” The World Factbook, 1990–2024 editions. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/falkland-islands/environment-current-issues.

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