:: Who are we?
The New Island Conservation Trust is a non-profit, charitable conservation body. We are an entirely independent organisation, responsible for ensuring the ongoing protection of the wildlife sanctuary of New Island in the Falkland Islands.

:: The New Island Conservation Trust (NICT) comprises a board of eight Trustees; three based in the Falkland Islands and five in the UK - originally selected by Ian Strange. This Board of Trustees is responsible for controlling the management and administration of the charity, monitoring its income, expenditure, investments, property and other assets, operating to strict regulations laid down by the Charity Commission. Alongside this, Ian and Maria Strange and daughter Georgina take care of all aspects of running the island on the ground from day to day. Georgina is based on New Island for the duration of the six months each year that the reserve is operational.

:: Ian J Strange MBE Ian Strange, a highly-respected naturalist, author and artist who came to the Falklands in 1959, established the New Island Conservation Trust as a small and independent organisation dedicated to the preservation of nature in the Islands.

New Island was originally purchased by Ian Strange and Roddy Napier in 1972. After many years of pursuing a dream to transform the island from a sheep farm into a nature reserve, Ian Strange eventually placed the Southern half of New Island under this Trust to ensure its future protection. Later, the Northern half of the island was also placed under the Trust. The New Island Conservation Trust, registered as a UK charity, is the legal proprietor of New Island.

:: The Original NICT Memorandum "To establish the island as a wildlife reserve, to encourage conservation and research while developing specialised wildlife tourism" remains in place today, and under the NICT the property is required by law to continue as a wildlife reserve in perpetuity. As well as assured environmental protection, this offers a guarantee to researchers who can plan long term projects with the knowledge that the New Island reserve status will not alter.

:: Volunteers, Donations & Support
The continuing success of this project and our ability to carry on with its operation has been made possible mainly through the efforts of a large number of volunteers. Through the years they have come not just as field assistants or to study wildlife, but to help with the more mundane tasks such as fence clearance, rodent trapping, land management, building and general maintenance.

We are particularly indebted to the Geoffrey C. Hughes Trust and John Young for their generous support, which resulted in the building of the reserve's Field Station, and the acquisition of New Island North in 2006.

Funding from the Overseas Territories Environment Programme (OTEP) has also made it possible for us to achieve great progress in our conservation efforts.

As an independent, non-profit charity we do not receive any regular Government funding and we therefore rely on the generosity of individuals and institutions to help us keep this organisation going.