Island Conservation
Island Conservation recently welcomed Ted Haffner onto our Advisory Council – a wonderfully engaged, thoughtful and experienced thinker who brings a deep understanding of conservation to further guide our team. Ted’s vast experience connecting the natural world to the built environment through strategic thinking is ideal for an organization that strives to maximize global impact. […]
Last week a new paper (with significant contributions from Island Conservation’s Coral Wolf and David Will) has shown that once invasive species have been removed from islands, seabird populations can be – and have been – restored with remarkable success. The study synthesizes 851 events, covering 138 species in 551 locations and 36 countries, and […]
Island Conservation, Re:wild, and UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, along with a growing cadre of Island-Ocean Connection Challenge (IOCC) partners are excited to announce the first eight island-ocean ecosystems selected to be restored and rewilded from ridge-to-reef. FOR RELEASE: Tuesday, April 11, 2023 Climate change, ocean degradation, and biodiversity loss are causing entire […]
If there ever was an official title for a “Conservation Superstar” it would have to be given to our incredible Native Species Specialist, Paula Castaño. Paula has worked on the Galápagos Islands since 2013 and has been on the forefront of many our most incredible recovery stories including locally extinct birds and geckos reappearing on […]
High above the ocean and carved within limestone cliffs in the north-west of Ulong Island lie ancient caves that contain paintings and pictographs signifying beliefs and activities that far precede colonialization. The Indigenous Peoples of Ulong, an island that forms part of western Palau in the Pacific Ocean, have a proud cultural history – as […]
What if your family had lived on a collection of islands for centuries, but the natural biodiversity was constantly diminished by destructive invasive species? What if food security for your community was at risk and your vulnerable marine-island ecosystems were threatened by climate change? These are very real questions for the people who live in […]
Does the survival of life on our planet seem increasingly at risk? No matter your political orientation, work-life situation, or food preferences, it’s impossible not to notice the trouble we find ourselves in as a species. The impact we are having on the other 8.7 million species who share this planet with us is—in a […]
Three years of planning, several weeks of intense field work and more than 500 drone flights were required to complete a complex restoration project on the islets surrounding Wallis Island in the South Pacific. The goal was to remove invasive species that were destroying the biodiversity of the islands, which also hold immense cultural significance […]
This year’s Invasive Species Awareness Week, which runs from February 20 – 26, aims to raise awareness of the impact that invasive alien species have on biodiversity and the urgency of taking action to address this issue. The Convention on Biological Diversity defines invasive alien species (IAS) as species that threaten biological diversity through their […]
For better or worse, the modern world is driven by economics, and it is often the case that collective action can only be motivated by alarming financial realities. A new paper underscores the urgency with which we should protect and restore island-ocean ecosystems by highlighting the enormous cost that invasive species have – not just […]