Three days into the trip and I had already seen both land and marine iguanas, blue-footed boobies, sally lightfoot crabs, frigate birds, waved albatross and I had stepped over seals basking in the sun – this is the Galapagos.

 

The islands really are like stepping back in time where you get a real sense of the way in which evolution developed particularly when you start to notice the subtle differences in the finches that originally turned the theory of evolution on its head!

 

In 2006 Durrell, with significant funding from the UK’s Darwin Initiative, formed a partnership with the Charles Darwin Foundation and Galápagos National Park to arrest the decline of the Mangrove Finch and eventually restore the population to areas of mangrove from where it has disappeared. Our tours to the Galapagos area help fund their vital work.

 

Read more about the Galapagos cruise holidays that Discovery Initiatives offers.