My new YouTube channel features 8mm video tapes recorded by Jim Young during the years we lived at the Charles Darwin Research Station on the Galápagos Islands in the early 1990s.
This turbulent period saw the rise of an unregulated sea cucumber (pepino de mar) fishery with illegal encampments in Galápagos National Park.
Ecuadorian and international response to these events spurred the Galápagos Marine Reserve declaration of 1998, which expanded the protected area and intensified management therein.
This historic footage was used in the BBC videos
“Galapagos: Paradise in Peril” and
“Lonesome George and the battle for Galapagos”