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Carlos Espinosa/CDF
Carlos Espinosa/CDF
Rashid Cruz-CDF
Research Data Repository FKt230918 Cruise Report
Esther Marcayata/CDF
The Islands, Inspiration for Science and Gratitude

Today, I find myself here, by the sea, writing about my experience living on an island. It all started when I was searching for an opportunity, and I found a living dream instead: volunteering in the Galápagos. I applied to the Landbird Conservation Program of the Charles Darwin Foundation and had the privilege of becoming part of their team.Today, I find myself here, by the sea, writing about my experience living on an island. It all started when I was searching for an opportunity, and I found a living dream instead: volunteering in the Galápagos. I applied to the Landbird Conservation Program of the Charles Darwin Foundation and had the privilege of becoming part of their team.

Mara Speece / CDF
CDF Opens its Doors to the Largest Scientific Heritage of Galapagos in Ecuador

For the first time, the Charles Darwin Foundation opens Galápagos’ largest scientific collections to the public. Housing over 137,000 specimens, this new facility offers a rare glimpse into the science shaping conservation decisions and safeguarding one of the planet’s most extraordinary ecosystems.

Carlos Espinosa/CDF
CDF Archive
Our History

Discover the Charles Darwin Foundation, established in 1959 to protect the Galapagos Islands' fragile ecosystem. As the oldest and largest science and conservation organization in the archipelago, our Research Station leads efforts to preserve this unique environment through groundbreaking research and conservation milestones.

Carlos Espinosa/CDF
A Quito Photographer's Chronicles in the Enchanted Islands

A Quito Photographer's Chronicles in the Enchanted Islands

Pelayo Salinas de León/CDF
Silky shark's record-breaking migration of more than 27,000 km on the Tropical Eastern Pacific sheds light on urgent conservation need

Silky shark's record-breaking migration of more than 27,000 km on the Tropical Eastern Pacific sheds light on urgent conservation need

Rashid Cruz-CDF
Lessons from the Field: A Five-Day Expedition with Galapagos Waved Albatross on Española Island

Lessons from the Field: A Five-Day Expedition with Galapagos Waved Albatross on Española Island

Teddy Zambrano, Sergio Zanchi, Oscar Cardenas y entire Connie Jean Two crew
Historic Sighting of White shark in Ecuador

Researchers from the Charles Darwin Foundation and the Galapagos National Park have published the first confirmed record of a white shark in Ecuadorian waters. The encounter, roughly ninety kilometers west of Wolf Island and outside the Galapagos Marine Reserve (GMR), marks an unusual sighting of this species in the Eastern Tropical Pacific, where sightings south of Mexico's coastline are exceptionally rare.

CDF
The Charles Darwin Foundation appoints three new members to its Board of Directors

The Board of the Charles Darwin Foundation for the Galapagos Islands (“CDF”) is pleased to announce the appointment of Lúcia G. Lohmann, Andrew Balfour, and Mary C. Pearl to its Board of Directors, with immediate effect. Each new member brings unique expertise and a deep commitment to CDF’s mission of safeguarding the Galapagos Islands through science and conservation.

Carlos Espinosa/CDF
Pinus radiata D. Don
Species Database Pinus radiata D. Don