Elizabeth Coral

Elizabeth was born in Ecuador on April 22, 1962. She is from Guayaquil, one of the most important ports of South America. She came to the Galapagos in 1980 to work for the Galapagos National Park Service with their program of eradication of introduced plants on Santa Cruz Island, the most aggressive of which is the cinchona or quinine.

Later on she worked as a volunteer for the Charles Darwin Research Station in the Entomology Department. She became a naturalist guide in 1983 and a SCUBA diving guide for the Galapagos Marine Reserve in 1999. She has been living in Galapagos for more than 20 years, not only working as a naturalist but also helping with research on the islands. One of her favorite projects is the cetaceans program. She often helps in censoring and monitoring the different species of marine mammals that pass by these waters. Her home in Puerto Ayora, where she lives with her husband, also a National Park Naturalist. Elizabeth loves these islands and their surrounding ocean, and enjoys sharing her knowledge with visitors.