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Juvenile Nazca Boobies gaze at the sunset. Photo by Jim Fesler
Marine Iguana expels saltwater through his nostrils. Photo by Carlos de la Rosa.
Galapagos Penguins having a moment. Photo by Sabine van der Meulen.
A rare white-plumed Red-footed Booby. Photo by Bill Klipp.
Juvenile Nazca Boobies gaze at the sunset. Photo by Jim Fesler
Marine Iguana expels saltwater through his nostrils. Photo by Carlos de la Rosa.
Galapagos Penguins having a moment. Photo by Sabine van der Meulen.
A rare white-plumed Red-footed Booby. Photo by Bill Klipp.
When the Charles Darwin Foundation was created in 1959, the human population in Galapagos was minimal. Tourism was essentially non-existent; fishing was at subsistence levels only; the agricultural community was small; and the Research Station was being built, board by board, by young scientists and local residents.
Fifty years later, that landscape has changed dramatically and, to continue our work to preserve the archipelago, Galapagos Conservancy has changed, too.
We remain committed to the biological research that is still needed in Galapagos and which has been at the core of the work of the Charles Darwin Foundation, our primary partner, for the last five decades. But today, Galapagos Conservancy supports a much broader research agenda, designed to ensure that decision makers have the insight, data, and context in which to make critical public policy decisions, as well as a wide range of sophisticated conservation and management programs on the ground.
01.18.21 January 18, 2021 Park rangers and scientists from the Galapagos National Park... More >
12.17.20 WASHINGTON, DC – December 17, 2020 Today, Galapagos Conservancy launched... More >
12.02.20 December 2, 2020 Last month, rangers from the Galapagos National Park Directorate... More >
By Lucas Bustamante, co-founder at Tropical Herping and Giant Tortoise Restoration... More >
By Linda Cayot, retired GC Science Advisor In July 2012 a mere two weeks... More >
By Patricia Isabela Tapia, research assistant for the Marine Invasive Species... More >