Isabela Island

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The Children of Floreana and the Traveling Petrels

Island Conservation’s Legal & Administrative Specialist for the Galápagos team, Carolina Torres, recounts her recent trip to Isabela Island with the children of the Floreana Island. Few things brighten the heart like hearing a flock of Galápagos Petrels sing on Floreana Island, Galápagos. The deafening sound echoes between the peaks of Cerro Pajas and Cerro […]

Written by on October 13, 2018

Living Permanently in the Galápagos

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 […]

Written by on May 9, 2017

The Late Lonesome George Returns Home

Lonesome George, the last Pinta Giant Tortoise died in 2012, but has been preserved and returned to the Galápagos as a sign of hope for the future of Giant Tortoises. The widely reported 2012 death of Lonesome George, the last remaining Pinta Giant Tortoise in existence, was a sad loss for conservation biologists. Lonesome George […]

Written by on March 10, 2017