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Liza Diaz Lalova

Liza fell in love with the ocean as a child growing up on the Ecuadorian coast. Her passion for storytelling and photography began at the age of seven, when she began filming her friends as they recreated stories from her parents' library. Liza later combined her audiovisual passion with her love for nature by majoring in Environmental Communication and Digital Animation. She began making documentary films, animations, and photographs aimed at inspiring communities to care for their natural habitats. Liza became enchanted by the Galapagos, where she first came as a student and has continued on as a volunteer for various conservation, education and arts organizations. She is now a professional conservationist and artist dedicated to inspiring and educating in small communities around Ecuador using creative audiovisual communications.

While working with the Charles Darwin Foundation (CDF) and the Galapagos National Park, Liza contributed to a short film promoting greater international protection for the Scalloped Hammerhead Shark. She also documented several seasons of the Mangrove Finch Project. She travelled onboard the LEX-NATGEO to retrieve finch eggs for hatching and hand rearing at the CDF Station in Puerto Ayora. Working with Conservation International Ecuador, Liza created short films documenting the first major coastal cleanup of the Galapagos Marine Reserve. Liza hopes to transmit her experience and love for her country to visitors from around the globe, hoping to inspire their appreciation and support for wildlife and habitat conservation in Ecuador and all other magical places on Earth.

My upcoming expeditions

Galápagos Aboard National Geographic Endeavour II

Apr 5 2024
Apr 12 2024
Jul 26 2024
Aug 2 2024
Nov 29 2024
Dec 6 2024

Wild Galápagos Escape (8-Day)

May 18 2024
May 23 2024
Sep 12 2024
Sep 21 2024

Wild Galápagos & Peru Escape

May 24 2024
Sep 13 2024

Wild Galápagos Escape (7-Day)

May 28 2024
Sep 17 2024