50 Pence - Elizabeth II Black-browed Albatross

The black-browed albatross breeds in enormous numbers on the Falklands — particularly on Steeple Jason, home to the largest single colony of any albatross species on earth. This 1997 issue arrived two years after the Falkland Islands Government began more aggressively asserting its fisheries jurisdiction in surrounding waters, a period when longline fishing mortality of black-browed albatrosses was drawing serious international attention and prompting early conservation negotiations between Britain, Argentina, and distant-water fishing nations.