Latest News

Habitat Restoration Project receives £250,000 of Defra funding

On 8th February 2012, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) awarded SGHT £250,000 of funding towards the South Georgia Habitat Restoration project. Read more on this exciting development here

Friends of South Georgia Island (FOSGI) is awarded 501(c)3 status

The Friends of South Georgia Island organisation (FOSGI) was awarded 501(c) 3 status in December 2011. US donors can make a tax-deductible donation through the website at www.fosgi.org.

Download spectacular South Georgia panoramas from the Centre for Remote Environments

SGHT Habitat Restoration Project: Phase 1 complete

Phase 1 of the Habitat Restoration Project was successfully completed in March 2011 – in just 28 days making this project the largest island rodent eradication operation ever undertaken in the world. This part of South Georgia is now believed to be rat free for the first time in two centuries.

Click here to sponsor a hectare and support the SGHT Habitat Restoration Project.

More news and publications

Register for newsletters

Frozen Planet Talk

Our thanks go to Alastair Fothergill, Executive Producer of the highly acclaimed BBC Frozen Planet series and Honorary President of the South Georgia Heritage Trust for a wonderful lecture in Cambridge in March 2012.

Thank you to everyone who bought a ticket to the event and supported the South Georgia Heritage Trust's groundbreaking conservation work for the sub-Antarctic Island of South Georgia.

Explore this website to find out more about South Georgia and how the Trust is working to protect its wildlife and heritage.