Ecosystem Restoration

Over the years, supporters of Galapagos conservation have funded research, field trials and conservation projects that have created exceptional capacity at the Galapagos National Park Service (GNPS) and the Charles Darwin Foundation (CDF) to restore endangered and degraded ecosystems to near pristine conditions.

Ecosystem restoration requires large-scale eradication capabilities (efforts in Galapagos date back to the 1970s, with significant advances being made in the 1990s), effective breeding and repatriation capacity (programs in Galapagos date back to the mid 1960s) and sophisticated monitoring systems.

Today, thanks to these investments, scientists and conservation managers are able to achieve ecosystem restoration projects such as Project Isabela and Project Pinta which would have been impractical and inconceivable only 15 years ago.

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