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Fundación Charles Darwin para las Islas Galápagos

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Sustainable Development

Major group affiliation:
  • Scientific and technological communities
  • Non-governmental organization
Involvement in UN Partnerships: Yes
If yes, explain in detail: The CDF has been related with UNESCO since its establishment in 1959. The representative from UNESCO in Ecuador is an institutional governing member. In 2018 we have begun new collaborations in the marine science area with the UN Environment Program, through an Eastern Tropical Pacific coral research fund.
Affiliation with other organizations: Alliances with the Paul M. Angell Family Foundation, the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation, and Focused on Nature.
Publications: 1. Atkinson, R., Guézou, A., & Jaramillo, P. (2017). Siémbrame en tu Jardín - Kanpa sisapampapi tarpuway - Plant me in your garden. Jardines nativos para la conservación de Galápagos - Galapagos suyu kuskata kamankapak sisapampakuna - Native gardens for the conservation of Galapagos. 2.ed. Puerto Ayora: Fundación Charles Darwin. 2. Jaramillo, P., Tapia, W., & Gibbs, J. (2017). Plan de acción para la restauración ecológica de las islas Baltra y Plaza Sur. Puerto Ayora: Fundación Charles Darwin, Parque Nacional Galápagos. 3. Tutivén, Y. & Yépez, J. (2017). Guía de otolitos de peces comerciales de la Reserva Marina de Galápagos. Puerto Ayora: Fundación Charles Darwin. 4. Tye, A. (ed.) (2018). Guidelines for invasive species planning and management on islands. Cambridge, Gland: IUCN. 5. Charles Darwin Foundation (CDF) and WWF-Ecuador. (2018) Galapagos Atlas, Native and Invasive Species. Quito, CDF and WWF-Ecuador. 1. Acuña Marrero, D., De la Cruz Modino, R., Smith, A.N.H., Salinas de León, P., Pawley, M.D.M., & Anderson, M.J. (2017). Understanding human attitudes towards sharks to promote sustainable coexistence. Marine Policy, 91, 122-128. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2018.02.018 2. Acuña Marrero, D., Smith, A.N.H., Hammerschlag, N., Hearn, A., Anderson, M.J., Calich, H., Pawley, M.D.M., Fischer, C., & Salinas de León, P. (2017). Residency and movement patterns of an apex predatory shark (Galeocerdo cuvier) at the Galapagos Marine Reserve. PLoS One, 12(8), e0183669. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0183669 3. Acuña Marrero, D., Smith, A.N.H., Salinas de León, P., Harvey, E.S., Pawley, M.D.M., & Anderson, M.J. (2017). Spatial patterns of distribution and relative abundance of coastal shark species in the Galapagos Marine Reserve. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 593, 73-95. DOI: https:// doi.org/10.3354/meps12505 4. Asigau, S., Hartman, D.A., Higashiguchi, J.M., & Parker, P.G. (2017). The distribution of mosquitoes across an altitudinal gradient in the Galapagos Islands. Journal of Vector Ecology, 42(2), 243-253. 5. Buglass, S., Reyes, H., Ramírez González, J., Eddy, T.D., Salinas de León, P., & Marín Jarrin, J. (2017). Evaluating the effectiveness of coastal no-take zones of the Galapagos Marine Reserve for the red spiny lobster, Panulirus penicillatus. Marine Policy, 88, 204-212. DOI: https://doi. org/10.1016/j.marpol.2017.11.028 6. Cairns, S.D. (2017). Deep-Water Octocorals (Cnidaria, Anthozoa) from the Galápagos and Cocos Islands. Part 1: Suborder Calcaxonia. ZooKeys, 729, 1-46. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.729.21779 7. Causton, C.E., Jäger, H., Toral Granda, M.V., Cruz, M., Mejía, M., Guerrero, E., & Sevilla, C. (2017). Total number and current status of species introduced and intercepted in the Galapagos Islands. Informe Galápagos 2015-2016 (pp. 181-183). Puerto Ayora, Galápagos: GNPD, GCREG, CDF, GC. 8. Cerutti Pereyra, F., Yánez A.B., Ebert, D.A., Arnés Urgellés, C. & Salinas de León, P. (2018). New record and range extension of the Deepsea Skate, Bathyraja abyssicola (Chondrichthyes: Arhynchobatidae), in the Galapagos Islands. Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 30, 85-89. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1400829 9. Djukic, I., Kepfer Rojas, S., Kappel Schmidt, I., Steenberg Larsen, K., Beier, C., Berg, B., Verheyen, K. et al. (2018). Early stage litter decomposition across biomes. Science of the Total Environment, 628-629, 1369-1394. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.01.012 10. Fernández, F., Sarmiento, C.E., & Herrera, H.W. (2018). First record of the Sclerogibbidae (Hymenoptera) from the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. Pan-Pacific Entomologist, 94(1), 27-31. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3956/2018-94.1.27 Izurieta, A., Delgado, B., Moity, N. et al. (2018). A collaboratively derived environmental research agenda for Galápagos. Pacific Conservation Biology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1071/ PC170
Statements or documents submitted
Commission on Sustainable Development: 		https://www.darwinfoundation.org/en/research https://www.darwinfoundation.org/en/blog-articles/408-galapagos-finalist-for-the-latinoamerica-verde-awards-2018
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