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If you wish to help...

Funding for our research project is very scarce, and we are often forced to use our own funds to cover expenses for logistics and equipment. Hence, any kind of contribution is mostly welcome. Anybody who'd like to contribute or participate to the research should contact Filippo Galimberti.

List of contributors

Carla and Alberto Galimberti (financial support)

Guido Galimberti (financial support)

Earthwatch Institute (financial support, field volunteers)

Sea Lion Island Company and Strachan Visick Ltd. (finacial support)

Prof. Luigi Boitani, Dept. of Animal Biology, University of Rome "La Sapienza" (GPS receivers; PIT tags and readers)

COL. EN. S.r.l. (design and production of weighing trypod)

Mr. Luigi Bianchi, MARCONE e BIANCHI S.r.l. (design and production of biopsy heads for skin sampling)

Mr. G. Sanelli, GREAT ESCAPES - CAL S.p.a. (technical clothing)

Mr. Biondi, C.A.M.I. Paviglianiti S.r.l. (dynamometers)

Mr. Richard F. Gantt, II (financial support)

Aknowledgements

We wish to thank Carla and Alberto Galimberti for their long-lasting and strenuous support of our researches on seals and sea lions; Roberto Sanvito for his advice on many different technical problems of the research; Ilaria Marzetti, Alice Camplani, and Daniela Marasco for the dedication demonstrated while in the field; Ilaria Marzetti for her invaluable intellectual contribution to the research; prof. Luigi Boitani of the University of Rome "La Sapienza" for his assistance during every phase of our research on elephant seals; the Falkland Islands Government for letting us carry out our research in the Falklands; Mr. Pete King of the Secretariat and Mr. Tom Eggling of the Environmental Planning Department for the granting of research permits; the Falkland Islands Development Corporation, Mr. Hugh Normand, and Mr. David Gray for letting us do the field work on Sea Lion Island; Mr. Andrew Gurr for his enthusiastic support of our research; David and Patricia Gray, Jenny Luxton, Adela, Juan, Henry, Jessica and Roberto for their friendship during our permanence at Sea Lion Lodge. A special thanks is due to David Gray for his invaluable help with many practical problems of the research. Many people provided information about elephant seals presence in the Falklands: we wish to thank all of them, and in particular Mike Bingham, Ian Strange and Miss Pole-Evans. Last but not least, we wish to thank all the elephant seals of Sea Lion Island for their patience and their tolerance of our research work. A special thank is due to Fat, Leo and Ovo: they made our life better.  

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