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Island Conservation
Today in Glasgow, during the COP26 climate change summit, Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso, announced the declaration of a new Marine Reserve in the Galapagos. The new reserve announced at a press conference, will complement the current Marine Reserve with an additional 60,000 km2, which are divided into two zones of 30,000 km2 each. A zone […]
Island Conservation, Mission Blue, Turtle Island Restoration Network, along with more than 10,000 scientists and 150 organizations compel the presidents of Ecuador and Costa Rica to expand the countries marine reserves, in an open letter published in the New York Times. The Galapagos Archipelago in Ecuador and Cocos Island, Costa Rica are protected World Heritage […]
Tiny endemic spider on Cocos Island crafts three distinct types of webs depending if the habitat consisted of land, air, and water. Five hundred and fifty kilometers off the western coast of Central America, Cocos Island in Costa Rica is home to a variety of unique plants and animals. A UNESCO World Heritage Site and […]
AGREEMENT SIGNED BY THE MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, FOREVER COSTA RICA ASSOCIATION, AND ISLAND CONSERVATION TO RESTORE COCOS ISLAND NATIONAL PARK Resource: photos and B-roll • Cocos Island was declared a national park in 1978 and natural World Heritage in 1997. • The park contains the greatest number of endemic species in the country. San José, […]
Two Guam Rail chicks hatched at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute and conservationists are looking forward to the day they can be released into the wild. Conservationists are celebrating two new Guam Rail hatchlings that were born at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) earlier this month. The species is classified as Extinct-in-the-Wild according to the […]