The Falkland Islands have a very long sheep farming history. For almost 150 years sheep have been grazed on the wide-open native white grass camps and rich coastal valleys and "greens".

Cheviot sheep were introduced in 1851 by the Falkland Islands Company to produce wool, with numbers peaking at 807,000 head at the end of the 19th century.

Home to around 3,000 people and roughly half-a-million sheep, the Falklands, a British territory, are a major wool producer. Besides being one of the only places in the world where sheep and penguins ...

Three Falkland Islands farmers and the general manager of Falklands Landholdings Corporation recently travelled to Australia as part of the ongoing search for improvements to lamb survival rates ...

George Lee, who lives in the Falkland Islands, works on his family’s farm on most weekends and holidays. Here he separates sheep that have already been shorn, or trimmed, from those who will ...

HAVING JUST had the good fortune to visit the Falkland Isles where sheep still reign supreme, I thought it might be appropriate to indulge in a bit… ...

The price of wool from the islands’ half-million sheep had plunged; the population dropped below 1,800; and there was almost no infrastructure for a modern economy.

The April 2, 1982, invasion led by Argentina’s dictators and the subsequent war with Britain launched a process that transformed the archipelago from a sleepy backwater of sheep farms […] ...

Gender Ideology Share or comment on this article: Falkland Islands advertises for £43,000-a-year equality guru - even though its 3,662 population is outnumbered by 500,000 sheep shares ...

A sheep-shearing sex predator has been sent back to UK from the Falkland Islands as cops are put on alert. Roland Wedgwood-Orekoya was given a prison sentence in the South Atlantic for attacking a ...

AN equality guru is being sought to work on the Falkland Islands — where the 3,662 humans are outnumbered by 500,000 sheep. The £43,000-a-year civil servant will be sent 8,000 miles away to ...