New Era Galapagos Foundation

New Era Galapagos UK is a partner organisation of the New Era Galapagos Foundation, working in conjunction with it and providing volunteers from the UK, Europe and US to travel to the Galapagos Islands and work on our projects.

Our Mission
The New Era Galapagos Foundation works with the people of San Cristobal, in the Galapagos Islands, to develop environmental education through community programs. We place English speaking volunteers in a variety of programs across the island, where they can make a real difference to the local community and contribute to the long term conservation of the islands.

NEGF was founded with the commitment to provide a more inclusive and therefore effective conservation programme for the Galapagos Islands. We aim to achieve this through a program of education, which can ultimately provide the necessary skills, knowledge, and awareness to the most influential species in the Galapagos; humans.

History of NEGF
The New Era Galapagos Foundation (NEGF) was started in 1996 by a partnership of resident Galapagos conservationists and volunteer English teachers, to address the social and ecological challenges facing conservation in the Galapagos Islands and the surrounding Marine Reserve.

The Galapagos Islands make up a truly unique archipelago and are blessed with some of the world's most spectacular flora and fauna. Having remained unchanged for thousands of years, the introduction of humans has had a dramatic effect in a short space of time. For many years, prior to our founding, there was a real lack of community awareness about environmental conservation on the island which resulted in littered streets, polluted water and a depleted fishing supply. The foundation was started to address these pressing needs that we observed.