Links to the organizations that help CDF to carry out its work in Galapagos, and to web sites of general interest to Galapagos enthusiasts.
CDF Partners
Friends of Galapagos Organizations
CDF Donors
CDF Visiting Scientists
Galapagos and Conservation Links
Charles Darwin
Evolution
CDF Partners
Important collaborators working for sustainability in Galapagos.
Galapagos National Park Service
The Participatory Management Board
SESA-SICGAL
Friends of Galapagos Organizations
Non-profit organizations in different parts of the world, working with CDF to raise funds for, and awareness of, Galapagos conservation and science.
Galapagos Conservancy (US)
Galapagos Conservation Trust (UK)
Swiss Friends of Galapagos
Frankfurt Zoological Society (Germany)
Friends of Galapagos Netherlands
Japan Association for Galapagos
Nordic Friends of Galapagos
Friends of Galapagos New Zealand
CDF Donors
Through the generosity of these and other donors, CDF is able to carry out its work year after year.
American Bird Conservancy
Belgium Science Policy
Beneficia Foundation
Commission of the European Communities (INCOFISH)
International Cosmos Prize
Darwin Initiative
Discovery Initiatives Travel
Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust
Earthwatch Institute
Ecology Project International
Ecuadorian Air Force
E8
Fund for the Environment & Urban Life / The Oram Foundation
Fundación Ecuatoriana de Estudios Ecológicos (ECOCIENCIA)
G.A.P. Adventures
Galapagos Conservation Fund (Lindblad Expeditions)
Galapagos National Park Service
Galapagos Travel
Global Environment Facility
Government of Ecuador
Heinz Sielmann Stiftung
Holbrook Travel
Institut Geographique National
Inter-American Development Bank
International Galapagos Tour Operators Association
Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
Keidanren Nature Conservation Fund
Max Planck Society
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
NOAA Fisheries Service
North Carolina State University
Ocean Fund
Osaka Lions Club Galapagos Photo Exhibition
Penguin Fund Japan
Saint Louis Zoo
SeaWorld Inc.
Swarovski Optik
TAME Airlines
The Nature Conservancy
The Pew Charitable Trusts
The Royal Society
United Nations Development Program
United Nations Foundation
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
CDF Visiting Scientists
Scientists who, working with CDF and the Galapagos National Park, carry out research on Galapagos within their own institutions.
Henning Adsersen (University of Copenhagen)
David Anderson (Wake Forest University)
James Bednarz (Arkansas State University)
Rafael Borroto Páez (Systematic Ecology Institute of Cuba)
Rodrigo Bustamante (CSIRO, Australia)
Gisella Caccone (Yale University)
Paul Colinvaux (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute)
William E. Conner (Wake Forest University)
Michael O. Dillon (The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago)
Robert Dowler (Angelo State University)
Peter Dutton (NOAA-NMFS Southwest Fisheries Science Center, USA)
Graham Edgar (University of Tasmania)
Harold Evans (Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux International)
Nigel Fergusson (Natural History Museum of London)
Gabriele Gentile (University of Rome)
James Gibbs (State University of New York, Syracuse)
Dennis Geist (University of Idaho and Colgate University)
Peter Glynn (University of Miami)
Mike Graham (Moss Landing Marine Laboratories)
Peter Grant (Princeton University)
Donna Harris (Oxford University)
Cleveland Hickman (Washington and Lee University)
Miriam Steinitz-Kannan (Northern Kentucky University)
Paul Kingston (Herriott Watt University)
Sonia Kleindorfer (Flinders University)
Simon Laegaard (Universidad de Aarhus)
Bernard Landry (Natural History Museum of Geneva)
John W. McCreadie and Charles Brockhouse (University of South Alabama)
Conley K. McMullen (James Madison University)
John Morrison (North Carolina State University)
Terry Naumann (University of Alaska)
Patricia Parker (St. Louis Zoo, University of Missouri St. Louis)
Kenneth Petren (University of Cincinnati)
John Pickering (University of Georgia)
Jeffrey Podos (University of Massachusetts)
Jeffrey Powell (Yale University)
Fernando Rivera (University of Melbourne)
David Rostal (Georgia Southern University)
Benjamin Ruttenberg (University of California Santa Barbara)
Tania Siemens (Cornell University)
Antje Steinfurth (University of Kiel)
Wolfgang Sterrer (Bermuda Biological Station for Research)
Frank Sulloway (University of California, Berkeley)
Douglas Toomey (University of Oregon)
Walter Traunspurger (University of Bielefeld)
Fritz Trillmich (University of Bielefeld)
Jennifer Trusty (Florida International University)
Hernán Vargas (Oxford University)
Sophie Violette (Université Pierre et Marie Curie)
Leila Von Aesch (Museum of Zoology, Lausanne, Switzerland)
Marcus Wenner (SeaWorld)
Mike Wilson (National Museum Wales)
Jon Witman (Brown University)
Martín Wikelski (Princeton University)
Galapagos and conservation links
Many web sites world-wide provide a fascinating insight into the problems facing Galapagos and their solutions.
General
Invasive Species
Galapagos Invasive Species
Invasive Plant Species of Isabela
United Nations Foundation
Global Invasive Species Programme
National Invasive Species Information Center (US)
Natural History
TerraQuest Virtual Galapagos
ABC Natural History Unit - Two Years in Galapagos
Voyage of the Odyssey
Destination: Galapagos Islands
California Turtle and Tortoise Club
The Galapagos Islands at the Rochester Institute of Technology
University of Wisconsin – Madison Zoological Museum: Galapagos Collection
Charles Darwin
The founder of the theory of evolution through natural selection; Charles Darwin's life and work.
The complete works of Charles Darwin online
Darwin Correspondence online database
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life (full text)
The Voyage of the Beagle (full text)
The Voyage of the Beagle (Galapagos chapter)
The Descent of Man (in progress)
The Writings of Charles Darwin on the web
BBC Education: Evolution homepage
Visiting Down House, Darwin's home in Britain
Evolution
More about the science that made the Galapagos a living laboratory.
PBS’ Triumph of Life
The Origin of Species
BBC Education: Evolution homepage
PBS: Evolution
University of California: Understanding Evolution
Evolution: International Journal of Organic Evolution
Becoming Human: Paleoanthropology, Evolution and Human Origins
Human History
People have been part of the history and development of Galapagos for centuries.
Galapagos Islands: History and Cartography
Galapagos Geology on the Web: A Brief History of the Galapagos
El Niño/Climate
El Niño - Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon and how it affects the Galapagos environment. Plus a daily weather report from the islands!
Daily weather forecast for Galapagos
UNEP El Nino Report
Currents of Change: Impacts of El Niño and La Niña on Climate and Society
NASA Earth Observatory
Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
Weatherbase Historical Weather Data
Conservation and Science Organizations
International organizations whose work supports the aims of the CDF.
Ocean Alliance
Galapagos Coalition
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
Ecopath
UNESCO World Heritage Center
EcoCiencia
Conservation International
WorldWide Fund for Nature
Geology
How the Galapagos islands were formed, from experts in vulcanology.
Volcanoes in South and Central America
NASA EOS IDS Volcanology
Galapagos Geology
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Global Volcanism Program
Local Organizations
These organizations are also working for a sustainable Galapagos.
CDF accepts no responsibility for the accuracy of information you may find on these websites, nor does it, by the link's appearance here, endorse any particular organization.
If you find a "dead link", meaning the linked site is no longer accessible, please let CDF know by contacting cdrs@fcdarwin.org.ec