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...

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.