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Persea americana Mill.
Species Database Persea americana Mill.
Carlos Espinosa/CDF
Species Database Inga spectabilis (Vahl) Willd.
Spathodea campanulata P. Beauv.
Species Database Spathodea campanulata P. Beauv.
Cyathea weatherbyana (C.V. Morton) C.V. Morton
Species Database Cyathea weatherbyana (C.V. Morton) C.V. Morton
Remembering the Story of Lonesome George in the Galapagos Islands
Psidium guajava L.
Species Database Psidium guajava L.
Passiflora colinvauxii Wiggins
Species Database Passiflora colinvauxii Wiggins
Investigation about Subtidal Monitoring of Non-native Species Begins in the Cocos Island National Park
CDF joins the Island-Ocean Connection Challenge

The CDF joins the Island-Ocean Connection Challenge to Implement Community-Based Monitoring and Safeguard Island Ecosystems

Pelayo Salinas/CDF
First-ever documented birthing migration of a hammerhead shark

Scientists from the Charles Darwin Foundation’s shark ecology and conservation program and collaborators, have published what is likely the first-ever scientifically recorded birthing migration for the critically endangered scalloped hammerhead shark (Sphyrna lewini).

2022 Open House: Get ready!
Carlos Espinosa/CDF
Species Database Pilea baurii B.L. Rob.
Juan Manuel Garcia-CDF
Natural History Collections

The Charles Darwin Foundation is home to the largest Natural History Collections of endemic, native and introduced species of Galapagos in Ecuador, with more than 135,000 specimens and 7,500 species across four Collections: Marine, Vertebrate, Terrestrial Invertebrate and a Herbarium.

Scalesia affinis Hook. f.
Species Database Scalesia affinis Hook. f.
Carlos Espinosa/CDF
Species Database Navicula phylleptosomaformis Seddon & Witkowski
Carlos Espinosa/CDF
Species Database Navicula galapagoensis Seddon & Witkowski
Carlos Espinosa/CDF
Species Database Navicula isabelensiminor Seddon & Witkowski
Northern Galápagos Islands Home to World’s Largest Shark Biomass
Carlos Espinosa/CDF
Species Database Navicula willisiae Seddon & Witkowski
Carlos Espinosa/CDF
Species Database Navicula atwateri Seddon, Witkowski & Hemphill-Haley