Conservation success: Reintroduced land iguanas breed on Santiago island
A true conservation success story: Galapagos land iguanas, extinct on Santiago since the early 20th century, are now breeding on the island.
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Co-Galapagos: helping Galapagos back to its feet after COVID-19
Support Co-Galapagos, an initiative giving power to local communities to build a sustainable future for Galapagos.
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Women in Science: PCR in Galapagos Giant Tortoises
Gislayne, a biotechnologist from Galapagos explores the use of PCR in work to assess the health of Endangered giant tortoises.
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Sir David Attenborough awarded Ecuadorian National Order of Merit
On Friday 22 July, Sir David Attenborough was awarded the National Order of Merit, in the rank of Grand Officer, by the Ambassador of Ecuador.
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WORLD ISLAND SUSTAINABILITY SUMMIT 2022
The 2022 World Summit on Island Sustainability was held from 26th to 30th June at the Galapagos Science Center. During this international event, scientists shared their research in relation to island conservation and sustainability, including GCT’s President, Monty Halls and our Head of Programmes, Dr Jen Jones.
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UN Ocean Conference 2022
The 2022 United Nations Ocean Conference, hosted in Lisbon, Portugal, saw world leaders pursue the objective of scaling up solutions to reverse the decline in ocean health and protect it from existing and future threats.
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Sequencing Galapagos and Saving Livelihoods
In 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, we launched Barcoding Galapagos, a hugely ambitious project to catalogue the biodiversity of the Islands. Crucially, we would do so by employing hard-hit professionals whose livelihoods had been affected by COVID-19.
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