Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species - Galápagos Islands, Ecuador

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (GRIIS) presents validated and verified checklists (inventories) of introduced (alien) and invasive alien species at the country, territory, and associated island level. Phase 1 of the project focused on developing validated and verified checklists of countries that are Party to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Phase 2 which is on-going, aims to achieve global coverage including non-party countries and all overseas territories of countries e.g. Netherlands, France and United Kingdom. Species belonging to all Kingdoms are covered as well as occurring in all Environment/systems. Country/ Territory/ Island checklists are reviewed and verified by networks of country or species experts. Verified checklists/ species records as well as those under review are presented on the online GRIIS website (www.griis.org). Individual species records are flagged with a ‘yes’ for verification. Only verified checklists/ species records are presented on the GBIF Portal. This annotated checklist is of introduced (alien) and invasive alien species known to occur in the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador. The introduced species database for Galapagos has been managed by the Charles Darwin Foundation (CDF) since it was formed and can be found on the CDF website under ‘dataZone’. This is a centralized database for species found in Galapagos and includes contributions from many researchers as well as staff from the Galapagos National Park Directorate, Galapagos Biosecurity Agency, Ministry of Agriculture and other local institutions. CDF is currently working on a new design for dataZone that will include new fields for introduced species to meet the requirements of CBD. The last review of invasive species in Galapagos was carried out ten years ago. Because of this, the list of invasive species in the checklist is not current. A review of invasive species will be conducted in 2019 using risk analysis tools.