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In 1984, six years after becoming a World Heritage Site, Galápagos was designated a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. Peter Kramer's 1980 proposal and Köster and Villa's 1983 research built the scientific case, showing that reconciling conservation with sustainable development, economic growth, tourism, urbanization, and immigration required integrating ecological and social criteria.
The CDF joins the Island-Ocean Connection Challenge to Implement Community-Based Monitoring and Safeguard Island Ecosystems
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).
