e-Newsletter Sign-Up
DONATE
Preserve. Protect. Restore.
Join our online community to get the latest conservation updates and alerts delivered to your inbox. Opt out any time.
Recent Press Coverage
These Galápagos tortoises have returned home after saving their species (7/6/20), Lonely Planet
These tortoises saved their species from extinction. Now they’re back home (7/1/20), CNN Travel
Diego, key to saving his species, returns home after more than 80 years (6/19/20), UN Environment
Not so ‘Lonesome?’ Galápagos tortoise subspecies thought extinct lives on. (2/3/20), NBC News
Tortuga Diego regresará a la isla Española (1/12/20), Ecuavisa (video featuring Wacho Tapia and James Gibbs, in Spanish)
The tortoise whose rampant sex drive helped save his species is finally retiring (1/12/20), The Washington Post
Diego, the Tortoise Whose High Sex Drive Helped Save His Species, Retires (1/12/20), The New York Times
This giant tortoise isn’t extinct after all (2/22/19), BBC Newsday
How an ‘extinct’ tortoise was rediscovered after a century (2/22/19), National Geographic
Innovative Conservation Strategies Help Restore Nearly Extinct Tortoises On Galapagos Islands (2/21/19), Wisconsin Public Radio
‘Extinct’ Galapagos tortoise found after 100 years (2/21/19), CNN
Unraveling The Mysteries Of Sharks In The Galápagos Thanks To An App (2/13/19), Forbes
Previous Key Press Coverage
Years after his death, Lonesome George’s genome offers clues to long life (12/4/18), PBS
In death, Lonesome George reveals why giant tortoises live so long (12/3/18), Phys.org
Exploring Galapagos snakes on volcanoes (7/26/18), Phys.org
The Galápagos Tortortoise Next Door (4/23/17), Scientific American
Innovative Conservation Strategies Help Restore Nearly Extinct Tortoises On Galapagos Islands (3/3/17), Wisconsin Public Radio, featuring Dr. James Gibbs
Giant Tortoises Island Hop Across the Galapagos (8/5/15), The New York Times
Historic Discovery for Giant Tortoises (3/15/15), CNN
Undoing the Damage to the Galapagos (12/22/14), MSNBC
Galapagos (7/1/14), Radiolab
Connect with us
Latest News
-
BREAKING: Ecuador Announces Expansion of Galápagos Marine Reserve
01.14.22 [Versi n en espa ol abajo] January 14, 2022 Marine conservation endowment... More >
-
BREAKING: Wolf Volcano Erupts During Galápagos Conservancy-Galápagos National Park Directorate Expedition; All Team Members Safely Airlifted
01.07.22 January 7, 2022 Santa Cruz, Gal pagos, January 7, 2022 – Early this... More >
-
BREAKING: Historic Declaration for Expansion of Galápagos Marine Reserve
11.01.21 November 1, 2021 Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso has just expanded marine... More >
Latest Blog Posts
-
Devil’s Island: A return to Pinzón among thorns, tortoises, and birds
by Washington “Wacho” Tapia I first visited Pinz n Island in 1990... More >
-
A Look Back at Education for Sustainability’s Tenth Teacher Institute
by Richard Knab It is a pleasure and honor to work with Gal pagos teachers... More >
-
Q&A: The Art of Studying Scat
Although fighting to save some of the world s most iconic endangered... More >
