Tessa the Tortoise storybook

Following on from the huge success of our first storybook, Marti the Hammerhead Shark: A Galapagos Journey, we're delighted to share with you our new storybook project: Tessa the Giant Galapagos Tortoise: A Galapagos Journey.

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Co-Galapagos: catalysing community action for biodiversity conservation and sustainable development

Project Update: As part of GCT's Driving Sustainable Solutions programme, Co-Galapagos is working to achieve the 2030 Sustainable Development Goal Agenda in Galapagos.

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How do you solve a wicked problem like plastics?

Our international group of changemakers, Pacific Plastics: from Science to Solutions, are working together to rid the Eastern Pacific Ocean of plastic pollution.

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Celebrating Women in Science – part 2: Women leading the fight against plastic pollution

Meet some of the women leading the way towards an ocean free from plastic pollution.

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Mangrove Finch Project update

Despite the challenges of the ongoing pandemic, the Mangrove Finch Project team was able to spend six weeks in the field during the 2021 breeding season. Some new techniques provided some valuable results.

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Can genetic barcoding offer more than information to the Galapagos Islands? The Barcode Galapagos Project.

The Galapagos Barcode Project came as a response to the economic emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which left most of the population of the Galapagos Islands unemployed.

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Baby little vermilion flycatchers offer hope for the Critically Endangered population

Little vermilion flycatchers, Pyrocephalus nanus, are found throughout most of Galapagos, but the population on Santa Cruz is in serious decline. But baby flycatchers offer hope for the Critically Endangered population.

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Global relevance: COVID-19 and sea cucumbers

The brown sea cucumber fishery in the Galapagos Islands was reopened in 2021, six years after it was deemed that the population needed time to recover. After only two weeks it was closed again, with the quota of 600,000 sea cucumbers having been reached by 308 artisanal fishers.

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Galapagos Waste Management Report 2021

In April 2021, GCT commissioned a report on waste management in Galapagos, delivered by a team of sustainability engineers at OrcaTec. This report describes the development of the waste management systems on the Islands, the challenges experienced in maintaining them and identifies opportunities for future solutions.

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