EDINBUGRH, UK  June 1956

Following several reports on the growing concern over...

"..the precarious situation of various species of fauna and flora endemic to the Galápagos Islands..."

and by

"... reports in the press of plans for the large tourist and economic development of the resources of the Galápagos Islands", 

the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), passed a resolution recommending...

"... that qualified naturalists should be encouraged to visit the Galápagos Islands to make a survey and ecological studies of the fauna and flora and express their hope that facilities will be provided by the Ecuadorian Government or through some form of international technical aid so that a small housing unit or laboratory might serve as a base for such scientific work"

NEW YORK, 5 July 1957

On 5 July 1957, accompanied by an illustrator and photographer from Life Magazine,  Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldtand (Austrian native, working at the Max Planck Institute for Behavioural Physiology) and Robert Bowman (native Canadian, professor of comparative vertebrate anatomy, ornithology, and island biology at San Francisco State University) depart by airplane from New York City for Guayaquil, Ecuador.

 

PARIS, 10 October 1960

Professor Robert Bowman delivers his report to UNESCO.  

A BIOLOGICAL RECONNAISSANCE OF THE GALÁPAGOS ISLANDS DURING 1957

 

For anyone out there keen on the history of Galapagos conservation, Professor Bowman's report is fascinating reading.