Island Conservation
Island Conservation’s Legal and Administrative Specialist Carolina Torres Trueba shares a powerful experience on Floreana Island and explains why she has great hope for the future of the Galápagos. Timelapse, Floreana at sunrise by Carolina Torres Trueba Imagine yourself, at the break of dawn, sitting at the highest point of one of the most remote […]
Island Conservation’s Restoration Specialist and Wildlife Veterinarian Paula Castaño shares how removal of invasive rodents and feral cats will pave the way for native species reintroduction on Floreana Island. Floreana Island is located in one of the most amazing places on earth: the Galápagos Islands. Floreana is known for being the first island of the […]
New Zealand’s Predator Free 2050 project garners attention as conservationists watch to see how developing technology will support island restoration. New Zealand has one of the highest proportions of threatened species to non-threatened species in the world and is a hotspot for invasive species. Although the island nation has been dealing with invasive predators for […]
The second phase of the research project on the diversity of endemic Galápagos snakes has begun. In November of 2016, the Galápagos National Park Directorate of the Ministry of Environment of Ecuador, Island Conservation, and the University of Massey, New Zealand, started the second phase of a project on the diversity of a group of […]
Heath Packard, Director de Marketing y Comunicaciones de Island Conservation, comparte la historia de IC, los beneficios de la remoción de especies invasoras en islas y el futuro de las erradicaciones, en una entrevista con Michael Olson en Ag Update. Transcripción en español: Rosemary: 44 minutos después de las 8 am, es un lunes por […]
National Geographic created an opportunity for scientists and researchers in the Galápagos to share their stories from the field with a “Sciencetelling” Bootcamp. Researchers are often drawn to the Galápagos archipelago, where the abundance of unique species sparks the hope of making exciting scientific discoveries just as Charles Darwin did. National Geographic created a multi-day course, a “Sciencetelling […]
Gloria Salvador, Island Conservation Floreana Project Facilitator, shares with National Geographic how the daily life of a Galápagos resident is a balance between two worlds. Since I was little, I understood that being from the Galápagos was a unique privilege. Famous for its iconic flora and fauna that inspired Charles Darwin to conceive the theory of evolution, this place […]
Paula Castaño, an Island Restoration Specialist for Island Conservation and a trained wildlife veterinarian, shares with National Geographic how she is changing the world of conservation. Why I became a wildlife veterinarian, and how that gave me power to change the world Often as veterinarians, we tend to focus on the immediate impact we can […]
Conservation Biologist Dena Spatz reflects on the Biodiversity Days Conference and the “Half-Earth” project sparked by scientist E.O. Wilson. By: Dena Spatz During the first week of March, 2017, I joined hundreds of people at the “E.O. Wilson Foundation’s Biodiversity Days Conference“. The theme for the event was “Half-Earth”, a call to action to save the […]
Have you ever wondered why the Blue-footed Booby has blue feet? Science has the answers. What’s in a name? The Blue-footed Booby’s name can tell you a lot about the unique birds. The species is known for its striking turquoise-colored feet, and the name Booby is believed to derive from the Spanish word “Bobo” which means “clown” […]