The year 2010 has been adventurous for us at The Arctic Fox Centre. The excitement reached it´s highest on June 12^th when we finally opened the house but this had been the aim since we founded the Centre in September 2007.

We have put together a little report and hope you enjoy it as well as we do. You can find the report in pdf or in pps which runs automatically while opened.

We thank you for all the visits, helping around, volunteering, cooperating, and spreading the knowledge. It is precious to us to know that we have so many friends and supporters to help building up our little arctic fox project in this old and historical house, Eyrardalur in Sudavik.

Thank you and welcome again

The Arctic Fox Centre wishes you all a merry Christmas and a happy new year

Many thanks for all the visits and good words on our first opening year

Special thanks to collaborators and sponsors

Happy Holydays!

 

The Arctic Fox Centre

Sudavik - Iceland

The Forth and last advent Sunday at The Arctic Fox Centre, open from 2 - 6 on December 19^th

We light the forth advent candle and have a hot chocolate at the Café, with apple cake, chocolate cake, brownies, muffins or whatever you like.

Cosy market at the loft, nice handcrafts, local dry fish, Christmas things on good price from the rescue team, all the Foxy souvenirs on a special price.
 

Welcome to the Arctic Fox Centre during the Advent  

The Arctic Fox Centre in Sudavik will become a "Crhistmas house" during the advent.

All Sundays before Christmas we will have an open house between 14 and 18. There will be warm atmosphere, drinks, pastry, music and market at the loft - anyone can come and sell handcraft and other products. Is it possible that you find the Christmas gift here: http://melrakki.is/rebbakaffi/minjagripir/

Musicians are especially welcome to come and sing and play for us...

 Visiting this old house in the advent is certainly a great way to enjoy and get into the Christmas mood.

Welcome to the "Foxy Christmas house" in Sudavik

 

Recently a new book was published in Iceland, this is the book „ the Arctic Fox and The Nation „

The Icelandic Association of Arctic Fox Friends was founded in 1977 and has sent out various announcements to the media over a period spanning more than 30 years. They have mostly been protesting the over 1000 years of harassment against the only native terrestrial land mammal in Iceland. They have used all kind of methods and set pressure on both public and politicians - all with the comic point of view. All the publications and announcements that have been send out by the association for the last 30 years or so are found in the book. In addition, there is a brief history of the law regarding arctic fox killing, bounties and regulations throughout 1000 years of human settlement in Iceland. There are also chapters about poetry, magic and folk-tales.

We find this book great, funny, interesting and exciting and we hope to be able to introduce the book in our Center. The coat on back and front has beautiful fox photos from our friends Jim Lamont (front) and Olger Kooring (back). It would be great if we could get the book partly or as a whole, translated into English. Sigurður Hjartarson, the author, is also a proud director of The Icelandic Phallological Museum in Husavík, see the webpage here

The Arctic Fox Center is a member of the Nordic project The Wild North.
The main objective of the project is to contribute to the sustainable development of wildlife tourism in the Northern Periphery, and thereby ensure the trade's foundations, the livelihood of its workers and the long term integrity of natural resources.

The project participants are tourism companies that specialize in natural based tourism/wildlife tourism, official entities, and various research institutions.

The partners come from Iceland, The Faroe Islands, Greenland and Norway. The project's consultants come from Scotland and Iceland.

The annual partner meeting and courses will be held in Westfjords next week. It will start with an opening meeting in the Arctic Fox Center on Monday, October 11th at 9:00.

On Wednesday, October 13th and Thursday, 14th there will be a course, held in Hotel Isafjordur, open for everyone. The title is „Getting your message across" - the role of interpretation in sustainable wildlife tourism. Instructor and course presenter, Deborah Benham (PhD) is a qualified and experienced guide trainar with the National Association of Interpretation. This is a wery practical course for everyone who is building up tourism projects, regardless of field of interest within tourism.

Wild North has the webpage: www.thewildnorth.org where you can follow up the schedule.

On Sunday, October 10^th, 350.org has it´s events named 10.10.10

 

350.org is an international campaign that's building a movement to unite the world around solutions to the climate crisis--the solutions that science and justice demand. The mission is to inspire the world to rise to the challenge of the climate crisis—to create a new sense of urgency and of possibility for our planet.

Iceland is participating for the first time; the students of the coastal and marine management at the university centre of Isafjordur have organized an event on the day of environmental action and celebration next Sunday. The project is named “Keep the Ice in Iceland” and takes place in Isafjörður, Sólheimar eco-willage and Reykjavík. All kinds of activities are in the schedule, for example a premiere of the documentary film “Future of Hope” in Isafjörður cinema – free entrance.

The Arctic Fox Centre and the elder kids from the Elementary school of Sudavik will of course join in. Borea Adventures supports The Arctic Fox Centre through 1% for the planet. On Sunday there will be a premiere in Iceland of the documentary “Arctic Fox Heating up” produced by Ecomedia earlier this year. The show will take place in the house of Borea Adventures in Isafjordur.

See about 10/10/10 on 350.org and on Facebook

Last week a representative of the Westfjord tourist association received an award from EDEN - the European Destination of Excellence, a project within the European Union. The award was due to excellent work on water and culture based tourism in Westfjords. The contribution of the group "Water Friend of Westfjords" is the backbone behind this reward which is an Excellence boon for all destinations in Westfjords.
EDEN provided a short film for introducing the Westfjords as an excellence destination. You can watch the film HERE

Now we have begin a special news page from Frosty - since he is getting e-mails from his friends from all over the world, who want to know how he is getting on.
The news will be on a page called Frosti´s blog (see bottom left) and there we will speak from his behalf, of everything that happens at his little "territory" in our backyard.

Frosti is also photographed regularly and we can see how he is changing from a little pup into a fully grown fox - how he will turn from bicoloured summer fox into a white winter fox - hopefully ..
so, follow up - Frosti´s blog and Frosti´s album - and you know, Frosti is also on Facebook so you can become his friend there too...

The Arctic Fox Centre was founded at the community social hall of Sudavik September 15th 2007 so we are three years old today. We are happy with all the happy visitors who came to see us last summer and we look forward for the bright future.

For celebration we will have open house at the exhibition next Sunday, September 19th from 13 to 16. The Arctic Fox Café will be open all day too ...

The Komedia Theather will be on stage upstairs at five, in Icelandic only - entrance fee 1500kr

 

Eight o´clock there will be a concert with Skúli - Mennski, a trubador from Isafjordur - entrance fee 500kr.

 

Welcome and enjoy with us - celebrate good times in this great old house ...