The Galapagos Conservation Trust (GCT) is a British

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 conservation

Conservation movement

The conservation movement, also known as nature conservation, is a political, environmental and a social movement that seeks to protect natural resources including animal, fungus and plant species as well as their habitat for the future....

 charity

Charitable organization

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 (registered number 1043470) established to raise funds for, and awareness of, for the Galapagos Islands

Galápagos Islands

The Galápagos Islands are an archipelago of volcanic islands distributed around the equator in the Pacific Ocean, west of continental Ecuador, of which they are a part.The Galápagos Islands and its surrounding waters form an Ecuadorian province, a national park, and a...

. It is a member of the Friends of Galapagos network. It was launched in 1995 at the Royal Society

Royal Society

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 in London.

The President is Andrew Marr

Andrew Marr

Andrew William Stevenson Marr is a Scottish journalist and political commentator. He edited The Independent for two years until May 1998, and was political editor of BBC News from 2000 until 2005....

.

Ambassadors for the charity include Janet Barber, Sir James Barlow, 4th Baronet, Angela Darwin, Sarah Darwin

Sarah Darwin

Sarah Catherine Vogel FLS is a British botanist.She is the daughter of George Erasmus Darwin, a metallurgist, and his wife Shuna . She has two older brothers; Robert George Darwin and the conservationist Chris Darwin...

, Julian Fitter, Monty Halls, Randal Keynes

Randal Keynes

Randal Hume Keynes, OBE, FLS is a British conservationist, author and great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin. He is the author of the intimate exploration of his famous ancestry, Annie's Box, subtitled Darwin, His Daughter, and Human Evolution , a book about the relationship between Darwin and his...

, Dorothy Latsis, Godfrey Merlen, Henry Nicholls

Henry Nicholls

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, Nigel Sitwell, Antje Steinfurth, Jennifer Stone

Jennifer Stone

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 and Ian Swingland

Ian Swingland

Professor Ian Swingland founded DICE at the University of Kent in 1989. While at DICE he served as director and was elected to the first Chair in Conservation Biology in the United Kingdom....

. Of these, Sir James, Sarah Darwin and Keynes are descended from Charles Darwin - Angela Darwin is a Darwin by marriage (she is the widow of George Pember Darwin, son of Charles Galton Darwin

Charles Galton Darwin

Sir Charles Galton Darwin, KBE, MC, FRS was an English physicist, the grandson of Charles Darwin. He served as director of the National Physical Laboratory during the Second World War.-Early life:...

).