Note: The Charles Darwin Foundation, Inc. is the former name of the organization now called Galapagos Conservancy. Neither the Galapagos Conservancy nor its previous incarnation as the Charles Darwin Foundation Incorporated are directly linked to the Charles Darwin Foundation. The Galapagos Conservancy is a non-profit membership organization dedicated to promoting conservation, education, and scientific research in and on behalf of the Galapagos Islands. The Galapagos Conservancy, with its headquarters in Virginia, USA, has an international membership of more than 10,000 and raises funds from individuals and institutions to support projects in Galapagos. The Galapagos Conservancy also conducts seminars, briefings, and other public education and advocacy efforts to inform the general public about conservation issues and the work being undertaken in Galapagos by the Charles Darwin Research Station and the Galapagos National Park Service.
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“From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
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