On the occasion of the International Conference ‘Island Biology 2019′ held in Reunion Island from 8 to 13 July 2019, the scientist Raquel Vasconcelos, herpetologist of the CIBIO-InBIO Research Centre, at the University of Porto, presented the first results of Monaco Explorations’ mission in Macaronesia in 2017, in Cape Verde, before an assembly of 300 experts on ecology, evolution and conservation of the insular fauna. During this mission on the Branco islet, two endemic species of the archipelago were studied. This research has already resulted in a scientific publication.