Galapagos Islands Darwin

For years, the Charles Darwin Foundation’s Research Station on the Galápagos Islands, some 900km west of Ecuador, operated a small store to help it get by in lean times – selling mostly clothing with the foundation’s logo. But then it added swimsuits, sunglasses, Ecuadorian chocolate and artwork, and the local traders cried foul. The town’s mayor agreed and shut down the store.

“I think the correct expression is the situation is touch and go, ” said Swen Lorenz, the foundation’s chief executive. “We are possibly only a few weeks away” from closing. His pleas to donors as part of an attempt to raise $1m have fallen on deaf ears.

The shuttering of the bright yellow gift shop was, perhaps, the fatal blow for the foundation. Donors, academics and scientists say the loss of the roughly $32, 000 a month the shop generated pushed the organisation more deeply into a hole it had been digging for some time. They said the foundation did not live within its $3.5m annual budget, even as donations shrank over the past 20 years.

The foundation is facing extinction because it failed to heed Darwin’s signature observation: to survive, it needed to evolve and adapt.

If the foundation goes bankrupt as expected, the Galápagos would lose its most knowledgeable research team that, during a half-century of existence, amassed an enormous database of animal specimens in one of the world’s most biodiverse archipelagos. Its work has saved birds such as the mangrove finch from likely extinction and has helped preserve everything from giant tortoises to plant varieties.

The research station has served “as a conduit for international support of conservation in Galápagos”, said Peter Grant, a Princeton University biologist who has conducted research there. “If the foundation fails, it’s anybody’s guess what will happen. We have not heard of any contingency plans.”

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