Newswise — BRONX, NY, November 20, 2025—The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) today expressed strong support for proposals submitted by Ecuador to the upcoming Conference of the Parties to the ...
Iguanas have often been spotted rafting around the Caribbean on vegetation and, ages ago, evidently caught a 600-mile ride from Central America to colonize the Galapagos Islands. But for long-distance ...
If you liked this story, share it with other people. Ecuador, which governs the Galápagos Islands, submitted two separate proposals to list the land iguana species and the marine iguana on CITES ...
In May 2021, actor and environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio announced support for a $43 million conservation initiative ...
If you liked this story, share it with other people. At least 60 wild iguanas have been captured, sold and exported from the Galápagos Islands in Ecuador under permits that shouldn’t have been ...
The Galápagos land iguana is one of three species of land iguana found in the Galápagos Islands, a volcanic archipelago in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of Ecuador. The other two species are the ...
Newswise — SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan (December 3, 2025)—The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) today applauded the decision by Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of ...
It started this May when Ecuadorian officials recovered four illicitly held Galápagos iguanas from a home near Guayaquil, the South American nation’s largest city. Before the month was through, ...
The Galápagos marine iguana, the only lizard in the world known to live and forage at sea, is facing a growing threat to its survival as a Super El Niño event disrupts its food supply and illegal ...
Nearly 14,000 volunteers took part in the citizen science project Iguanas from Above, helping to count endangered Galapagos marine iguanas through an online survey—and in doing so, contributed to the ...
It is unlikely you'll visit just one island while vacationing on the Galápagos Islands. Each of the archipelago's 20 main ...
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