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Dear friend,
We don’t want to lose another Lonesome George.
When this 100-year-old Pinta Giant Tortoise died
in June 2012 in the Galápagos, his species went
extinct; he was the lone survivor of his kind.
Until every Critically Endangered and Endangered
island species has been protected; until the
islands that these unique species call home have
been restored; until island communities have
thriving, functioning ecosystems that support
their health and economic opportunity, there will
be a need for Island Conservation.
In 2012, we launched the Small Islands, Big
Difference campaign, an ambitious, collaborative
endeavor to save our world’s most vulnerable
species. Small Islands, Big Difference is built
upon a scientific backbone—the Threatened
Island Biodiversity database, the world’s most
comprehensive hub of information about
threatened island species at risk from invasive
vertebrates. A collaborative effort between
Island Conservation, University of California
at Santa Cruz, Birdlife International, and the
IUCN Invasive Species Specialist Group, the
database identifies 1,300 islands—out of more
than 180,000 islands around the globe—where
threatened species occur, thus helping us target
where we should focus our efforts to prevent
extinctions. Under this new campaign, we are
partnering with governments, bi-lateral and multilateral organizations such as the Convention on
Biological Diversity, non-profit organizations,
philanthropic individuals and organizations, and
island communities to turn the tide on extinction
and safeguard island ecosystems.
This is a time of incredible opportunity for all
of us to protect biodiversity and save native
island species. Over the past 18 years, with your
support, Island Conservation and our partners
have protected 967 populations of 338 species
on 51 islands. We know what works. Our methods,
tactics, and tools are easily replicated and readily
available. With the appropriate funding and
commitment, we can solve this problem.
If you are a government representative, an
employee of a non-profit organization, or an
individual passionate about islands and their
native species, we invite you to join the Small
Islands, Big Difference campaign. To get
involved and learn more about Small Islands, Big
Difference, visit www.smallislandsbigdifference.org
or call us at 831-359-4787. Together, we can
secure a future for all threatened island species
by quickening the pace and scale of invasive
species removals.
Thank you for supporting Island Conservation
and for your deep commitment to the survival of
Earth’s varied and beautiful plants and animals.
Sincerely,
William Waldman
Executive Director
David Hartwell
Board Chair
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Palmyra Atoll, Line Islands
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Galápagos Archipelago,
Ecuador
Coconut Crab, Pisonia grandis,
Linking Land and Sea
Galapagos Tortoise, Galapagos
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Threatened Island
Biodiversity Database
Where we need to work to
save species from extinction
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Financial Report
Board, Advisory Board
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Supporters & Partners
Marine Iguana, Galapagos Penguin
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Tahanea Atoll, French Polynesia
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Conservation Measures
Thank you!
Tuamotu Sandpiper
Measuring impact on Rat Island,
Desecheo Island, and Anacapa Island
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Leach’s Storm-petrel Photo © Jeremiah Trimble
Remaining Photos © Island Conservation
Cover Photo: Vulnerable Bristle-thighed Curlew
(Numenius tahitiensis), Palmyra Atoll
PALMYRA ATOLL
Left: Native, Sooty Terns, Onychoprion fuscatus Center: Palmyra Landscape Right: Native, Masked Boobies, Sula dactylatra
Palmyra, named for the U.S.S.
Palmyra, which wrecked on the
atoll’s reefs in 1802, became a
National Wildlife Refuge in 2001
and today is part of the Pacific
Remote Islands Marine National
Monument.
Palmyra Atoll, the northernmost of the Pacific’s equatorial Line Islands, is known as one of the
most idyllic and remote places in the world. Large colonies of seabird species, such as Masked
Boobies, Red-footed Boobies, Sooty Terns, and Black Noddies, as well as Pacific Golden Plovers,
Bristle-thighed Curlews, Wandering Tattlers, and other migratory shorebirds, depend on this
tropical oasis for survival. The atoll also provides critical habitat for the world’s largest land
invertebrate, the rare Coconut Crab, and features one of the best remaining examples of Pisonia
grandis tropical coastal strand forest in the Pacific.
Believed to have arrived on Palmyra in the 1940s, when the atoll served as a WWII refueling
station, invasive black rats quickly ripped through the ecosystem, devouring seabird and
shorebird eggs and chicks and Pisonia seedlings. The invasive rats likely caused the extirpation,
or local extinction, of up to eight seabird species. In 2011, Island Conservation, the U.S. Fish &
Wildlife Service, and The Nature Conservancy implemented a rat-removal project on Palmyra
Atoll. Soon after, Pisonia seedlings began sprouting and fiddler crabs were flourishing. With
the island free of invasive predators, a dramatic increase in native plant and animal species is
anticipated as we continue to monitor for ecosystem changes.
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You can follow the atoll’s recovery at: www.protectpalmyra.org
An Equatorial Oasis
Coconut Crab
Birgus latro
With a leg span of over 3 feet, a weight of up to 10 pounds, and a life expectancy of
more than 70 years, the Coconut Crab (or “Robber Crab”) is the kind of creature
that spawns myths. They take their name from the coconuts that they drag back to
their dens, break open, and devour. Coconut Crabs continue to decline throughout
their range due to loss of habitat and human consumption.
Native Forest
Pisonia grandis
This tropical coastal strand forest was once found throughout the Indian and
Pacific Oceans but is now rare. Broadleaf Pisonia trees provide critical nesting
habitat for native seabird species, which prefer them over the invasive and
currently dominant coconut palms. For decades, invasive rats devoured Pisonia
seeds and seedlings, but now with the rats gone, this threatened tree species should
experience new growth and expansion.
Linking the Land and Sea
Scientists studying Manta Rays around Palmyra Atoll found that the rays spend all
their time off the coast of native forest, where plankton blooms are supported by
the nutrient-rich runoff from frequent rainfall. Along invasive coconut palm stands,
fewer nutrients and less plankton were found in the coastal waters.
Additionally, native forests host five times more nesting birds than do invasive palm
forests. These striking links demonstrate the vital connection between native land
and sea species.
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GALÁPAGOS
Left: IUCN Endangered, Galapagos Fur Seal, Arctocephalus galapagoensis Center: Galágpagos Islands Right: IUCN Vulnerable, Galapagos Hawk, Buteo galapagoensis
The Galápagos Marine Reserve
is a designated World Heritage
Site and the second-largest
marine reserve in the world,
covering 133,000 square
kilometers of sea surface.
The Galápagos Archipelago is one of the best studied and protected tropical island ecosystems in
the world. The volcanic processes that formed the islands, together with their isolation, led to the
development of an extraordinarily rich abundance of animals, many found nowhere else in
the world, such as the Marine and Land Iguanas, the Galapagos Giant Tortoise, and the many
species of finch that inspired Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection following
his visit in 1835.
But invasive rodents have invaded almost every major island in the Galápagos. Though small in
size, invasive rats and mice cause the collapse of entire ecosystems as they devour bird chicks
and eggs, tortoise eggs and hatchlings, lizards and iguanas, and native plants. The Galápagos
National Park, assisted by Island Conservation and the Charles Darwin Foundation, is working
to remove invasive rats and mice from islands in the Galápagos. In January 2011, these partners,
along with Bell Laboratories, The Raptor Center of the University of Minnesota, and the
Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, implemented the removal of invasive rodents from the
islands of Rábida, Bartolomé, Sombrero Chino, North Plaza, the two Beagle islets, and three of
the Bainbridge Rocks to protect native species. Rodent removal from Pinzón and Plaza Sur is
scheduled for fall 2012.
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Wild Islands, Wild Life
Galapagos Tortoise
Chelonoidis nigra
Reaching up to 900 pounds and over 6 feet in length, the IUCN threatened Galapagos
Tortoise is the largest living tortoise species in existence and, with a lifespan of over
100 years in the wild, one of the longest-living species in the world. Its numbers have
drastically declined—from 250,000 before human settlement in the 1800s to roughly
19,000 today. Only ten subspecies of the original fifteen still survive in the wild.
Action must be taken to protect these remaining species, including the Pinzón Giant
Tortoise (pictured), before they are lost forever like Lonesome George.
Galapagos Marine Iguana
Amblyrhynchus cristatus
Found exclusively in the Galápagos, this IUCN threatened, endemic iguana is
the world’s only lizard that dives underwater to forage on marine algae, staying
underwater for up to 30 minutes. They live in coastal areas and lay their eggs
underground in sand or fine gravel. Because they evolved in the absence of
mammalian predators, like most island species, these iguanas are extremely
vulnerable to invasive predator species, which consume young and occasionally
adult iguanas.
Galapagos Penguin
Spheniscus mendiculus
Another Galápagos endemic, the IUCN Endangered Galapagos Penguin has seen
dramatic population declines since the 1970s, mainly due to El Niño Southern
Oscillation events, which warm the waters of the eastern and central Pacific, but
also because of introduced predators. In 2011, Island Conservation helped protect
the penguin from extinction by removing invasive rodents from Bartolomé Island,
where they breed.
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TAHANEA
Left: Endangered, Tuamotu Sandpiper, Prosobonia cancellata Center: Tahanea Landscape Right: French Polynesia Endemic, Atoll Fruit Dove, Ptilinopus coralensis
The Tuamotu Archipelago is
the largest chain of atolls in the
world, spanning an area the
size of Western Europe. Like
many atolls in the archipelago,
Tahanea is uninhabited.
Once present throughout much of the Tuamotu Archipelago in French Polynesia, the
Endangered Tuamotu Sandpiper has been reduced to just 1,300 individuals residing on four
widely distributed atolls because invasive rats and feral cats have decimated their populations
elsewhere. It’s a globally significant species as it is the last of its kind—the Tuamotu Sandpiper
is the only tropical sandpiper species left. On Tahanea Atoll, part of the Tuamotu Archipelago,
suitable breeding habitat for the sandpiper exists, but the population is restricted to small areas
because of the presence of invasive rats.
In our first project in French Polynesia, Island Conservation collaborated with Simon
Fraser University, the Société d’Ornithologie de Polynésie (a Polynesian non-governmental
organization), and the nearby Faaite island community to remove invasive rats from three small
motu, or islands, on Tahanea Atoll in July 2011. Free from invasive rats, these islands will
provide safe breeding habitat for this truly incomparable species.
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Conservation Measures
Rat Island
In 2011, the University of California at Santa Cruz Conservation Measures team
recorded Leach’s Storm-petrels calling on Rat Island (renamed “Hawadax Island”),
Alaska, in the Aleutian archipelago. The presence of these seabirds and their calling
behavior is further evidence that the island is quickly recovering following the removal
of invasive rats in 2008 by Island Conservation, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service,
and The Nature Conservancy. These exciting monitoring results build upon our 2010
findings, which documented the return of the Aleutian endemic Giant Song Sparrow
and observed an increase in seabirds—successfully nesting and producing chicks—that
were once highly susceptible to rat predation.
Desecheo Island
Before we began removing invasive species from Desecheo Island, Puerto Rico, in 2008,
we started monitoring Higo Chumbo, a rare and endangered cactus that is found on only
three islands in the world. In 2011, as the removal of invasive species neared completion,
more than 30 cactus plants were recorded in island-wide field surveys, compared to zero
found in 2008. The most recent estimate is now 54 individual cactuses thriving. With the
removal project’s completion in 2012, we are now seeing consistent growth of monitored
plants and, for the first time since 1994, the fruiting of plants.
Anacapa Island
In 2011, University of California at Santa Cruz biologists on Anacapa Island, one of
California’s Channel Islands, observed an unexpected visitor—the Endangered Ashy
Storm-petrel. Never before recorded on Anacapa, its presence is a true indication of
ecosystem recovery following the removal of invasive rats from the island in 2002-2003
by the Channel Islands National Park, California Department of Fish and Game, U.S.
Fish & Wildlife Service, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, and Island
Conservation. This conservation action immediately eliminated invasive rat predation on
seabirds and their eggs. Over the last decade, nesting by rare Xantus’ Murrelets increased
by 155%, bolstering survivorship and population size. Cassin’s Auklets, previously absent
from Anacapa, also began breeding on the island after the removal of rats.
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Where the wild (and endangered)
things are…
Mapping the globe with
the Threatened Island
Biodiversity database
Each dot represents an island where threatened
species are at risk from invasive vertebrates, with
larger dots representing multiple islands in one
area. Over the past 500 years, islands have suffered
80% of all recorded extinctions and invasive
vertebrate species introduced to the islands
are the leading cause. The Threatened Island
Biodiversity database (TIB) was created to help
conservationists, island practitioners, NGOs, and
government agencies identify where the removal
of invasive species is needed most urgently to
safeguard biodiversity and human livelihoods on
islands around the world.
The TIB is a partnership between:
http://tib.islandconservation.org
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Financial Report
Revenue
Contributions
2011 Revenue
62,669
Grants
3,032,361
Contracts
2,742,278
Other income
Total Revenue
84,916
5,922,224
Contributions
Contracts
Grants
Other income
Expenses
Program services
North American Region
(Includes Palmyra Atoll)
2,967,555
South American Region
894,889
Caribbean Region
(Includes Desecheo Island)
562,700
Southwest Pacific Region
135,406
Conservation Science
332,761
Innovation Program
Small Islands Big Difference Campaign
Total Program services
Annual Expenses 2009 - 2011
16,460
150,227
5,059,999
Supporting services
Development
Management & General
326,260
577,475
2009
Total supporting services
Total Expenses
5,963,734
Net assets, beginning of period
3,794,062
Net assets, end of period
2010
201 1
903,735
3,752,552
North American Region
Conservation Science
South American Region
Innovation Program
Caribbean Region
Small Islands Big Difference Campaign
Southwest Pacific Region
Change in net assets
(41,510)
Board Of Directors
Advisory Board
Walter Sedgwick, Chair
Island Foundation
John Mitchell
New York Botanical Garden
Paul Ehrlich
Stanford University
Peter Raven
Missouri Botanical Garden
John Dawson, Vice-Chair & Treasurer
Dawson Family Foundation
Angus Parker **
José Sarukhán Kermez
Institute of Ecology, UNAM
Michael Soulé
University of California, Santa Cruz
Russell Mittermeier
Conservation International
Edward O. Wilson
Harvard University
Stephanie McAuliffe, Secretary
The David & Lucile Packard Foundation
Scott Birkey
Cox, Castle & Nicholson LLP
David Hartwell *
Bellcomb Technologies, Inc.
Jonathan Hoekstra
World Wildlife Fund
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Ingrid Parker
University of California, Santa Cruz
Daniel Simberloff
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Mike Sweeney
The Nature Conservancy
Stephen Thal
Harold Mooney
Stanford University
David Quammen
Author and Journalist
* Became Board Chair in 2012
** Joined in 2012
2011 Supporters
2011 Partners
Anonymous Donors
Wayne Minami
Stephen Aronson
Martha Miniello
Bahamas National Trust
Mark and Leslie Beauchamp
Mitsubishi Corporation Foundation
for the Americas
Dorothy M. Beek
The Mulago Foundation
Joe Beek
National Fish & Wildlife Foundation
Bell Laboratories, Inc.
The Nature Conservancy
Beneficia Foundation
Newman’s Own Foundation
Callum Berridge
Catherine Nishida
Scott Birkey
Katherine and Donal O’Brien
Bobolink Foundation
Open Door Foundation
CABI
Ingrid Parker
California State Coastal Conservancy
Bruce Posthumus
Patricia Callahan
Ann E. Prezyna and Gordon Lewis
Alan Carpenter
Price, Postel and Parma LLP
Yvon Chouinard
Rhino Entertainment
In Honor of Bill and Aimee Kreutzmann
Cumming Foundation
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
The Dawson Family Fund of the Silicon
Valley Community Foundation
RJM Foundation
Maurice Robichaux
Alfred Roca
Michael and Yvonne Dixon
Salesforce.com Foundation
Richard Erickson
Sandler Foundation
Janet Eyre
Walter and Jeanne Sedgwick
Kathleen M. Filippo,
In Memory of Guy Buckelew
Daniel Simberloff
David and Carol Finkelstein
Larisa Stephan
Solon and Diane Finkelstein
Mark and Leila Sutherland
Lesley Franz
Michael Sweeney
Melissa Greene and Don Samuel
Jack and Rikki Swenson
HeliGal
Tetra Tech
Tony Henderson
Stephen Thal
Jon Hoekstra and Jennifer Steele
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Derry and Charlene Kabcenell
Jessica Varlet
Kaho’olawe Island Reserve Commission
Ambika Wauters
Laurie and Eric Kutter,
In Honor of Jon Hoekstra
William Waldman and Olivia Millard
Charles and Debra Landrey
Frans Lanting and Chris Eckstrom
Jennifer Lape
Latham & Watkins, LLC.
Leo Model Foundation
The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley
Charitable Trust
Llagas Foundation
MacKinnon Family Charitable Foundation
March Foundation
Stephanie McAuliffe and Sheree Rife
Paul McGlaughlin
Susan McGreevy
Ruth Steinberg
Mary and John Wegmann
William K Bowes, Jr. Foundation
Margaret Willits
Willow Grove Foundation
Michael Owen Willson
Wolf Creek Charitable Foundation
American Bird Conservancy
Arthur Rylah Institute
AvesChile
Bahamas National Trust
BC Parks
Bell Laboratories, Inc
Biodiversity Research Institute
Sandra Buckner
California State Coastal Conservancy
Canadian Wildlife Service
Charles Darwin Foundation
Consejo de Gobierno de Galápagos
Conservacionistas de las Islas Juan
Fernández
Conservation International, Ecuador
Corporación Nacional Forestal (CONAF)
Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust
Eco Oceania Pty., Ltd
EcoGene
Environment Canada
Fort Worth Zoo
Peter Garden
Galápagos’ National Park, Ecuador
Groupo Ecologia de Islas
Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve and
Haida Heritage Site
Hawaii Department of Land and Natural
Resources
HeliOtago, New Zealand
Institute for Wildlife Studies
Instituto de Ecología y Biodiversidad,
Chile
Dr. John B. Iverson, Dept. of Biology,
Earlham College
Juan Fernandez Islands Conservancy,
Oikonos
Junta Parroquial “Isla Santa María”,
Ecuador
Kaho`olawe Island Reserve Commission
Landcare Research, Inc.
Mayaguez Zoo
Ministerio del Medio Ambiente, Chile
Municipalidad de Juan Fernández
Native Range, Inc.
New Zealand Dept. of Conservation –
Island Eradication Advisory Group
National Fish & Wildlife Foundation
Oikonos Ecosystem Knowledge
Oiled Wildlife Care Network
Pacific Invasives Initiative
Pacific Islands Partnership
Palau Animal Welfare Society
Palau Conservation Society
Palau National Invasive Species Council
Palmyra Atoll Research Consortium
Parks Canada
Pathfinder Aviation
Phoenix Islands Protected Area Trust
Powerboat Adventures
PRBO Conservation Science
Puerto Rico Dept. of Environment and
Natural Resources
Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority
Puerto Rico Ornithological Society
Quatsino First Nation
Raptor Center, University of Minnesota
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
(Henderson, Montserrat)
Servicio Agrícola y Ganadero (SAG), Chile
Simon Fraser University
Tamarak Ventures Ltd. (R/V Aquila)
The Nature Conservancy – Alaska Chapter
The Nature Conservancy – Hawaii Chapter
Tides Foundation
Tlatlasikwala First Nation
Torres Asociados LTD, Chile
Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile
University of California, Santa Cruz
University of California, Davis
US Air Force
US Environmental Protection Agency
US National Park Service – Channel Islands
National Park
US Navy
USDA – APHIS, Wildlife Services, National
Wildlife Research Center, Fort Collins, CO
USDA – APHIS, Wildlife Services, National
Wildlife Research Center, Hilo, HI.
USDA – Caribbean Islands office
USDA – Fort Collins
USFWS – Alaska Maritime National
Wildlife Refuge
USFWS – Caribbean Islands National
Wildlife Refuge Complex
USFWS – Division of Migratory Bird
Management
USFWS – Ecological Services in Hawai’i
USFWS – Ecological Services in the
Caribbean
USFWS – International Affairs
USFWS – Invasive Species Program
USFWS––National Wildlife Refuge System
USFWS – Pacific Remote Islands Marine
National Monument
USFWS – Pacific SW Region (Region 8)
USFWS – Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife
Refuge
USFWS – San Francisco Bay National
Wildlife Refuge Complex
USFWS – SE Region (Region 4)
White Buffalo, Inc.
Wildlife Conservation Society, Latin
America
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ROBINSON
CRUSOE ISLAND
Robinson Crusoe Island, Chile. The largest island in the Juan
Fernández Archipelago, Robinson Crusoe is home to the world’s
only endemic hummingbird from an oceanic island—the Critically
Endangered Juan Fernández Firecrown.
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Red-footed Boobies (Sula sula),
Palmyra Atoll
I Want to Help
Protect Island Species!
We are currently in the midst of a major wave of extinctions. We
are losing our world’s rich diversity of life, much of it concentrated
on islands, at a pace that is a thousand times greater than natural
extinction rates. As we lose unique species, we lose the natural
resources that are the foundation of our economies, our health, and
our cultures.
$1000
Yet, there is hope. With your vital support, Island Conservation
works to protect native plants and animals on islands by removing
invasive species, a leading cause of island extinctions. Together, we
are making the difference between survival and extinction.
City
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An IUCN Endangered Allen’s
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cychlura inornata, on Allen’s Cay,
Bahamas. With your support,
Island Conservation and the
Bahamas National Trust helped
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Thank you!
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