Ecuador's exceptional Galapagos archipelago has been at the heart of an ambitious decades-long preservation policy to protect its unique fauna from too many visitors. Could it serve as a model for ...

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Today, we awoke to find ourselves moored of Española, the oldest of the Galapagos Islands at the southern end of the archipelago. At Gardner Bay we started off with a wet landing on the fine coral ...

Biologists know that a certain amount of isolation is necessary for new and unique animals, like Darwin’s finches in the Galapagos Islands or marsupials in Australia. Turns out the same is true ...

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which found homes on several islands in the Galapagos archipelago. While some finches developed broad, blunt beaks that allowed them to crack open nuts and large seeds, others evolved to possess ...

Author - Joel Bernstein. The Galapagos Islands are home to many endemic animal and plant species found nowhere else in the world. Virtually all of the fauna - about 97% - is made up of endemics. You ...

Extinctions could have removed excessive diversity after Galapagos ... islands. Hybridization can also produce a new homoploid hybrid species. This happened when G. conirostris bred with resident ...

But there is cause for alarm." The Solomon Islands, known for hosting the second-highest coral diversity in the world, stands at the forefront of ocean conservation. The area's reefs are vital ...