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Historic Journey: 201 Giant Tortoises Released on Santa Fé Island

June 25, 2019April 27, 2020 GeorgeLewisUncategorized

Galápagos National Park Galápagos National Park rangers deliver tortoises to their new home on Santa Fé Island. At four in the morning of June 27, while most Galapagueños slept, a team of rangers and scientists of the Galápagos National Park Read More

What’$ the real Co$t of Living in Galápago$?

June 25, 2019April 27, 2020 GeorgeLewisUncategorized

Galápagos Digital Playa Man, San Cristóbal, Galápagos Amid all the protests over changes in the Galápagos law that would take away the old subsidies for wages in Galápagos and peg future wages to a cost-of-living index, the BBC, on its Read More

RIP: “Speed” the Galápagos Tortoise

June 25, 2019April 27, 2020 GeorgeLewisUncategorized

San Diego Zoo Speed, the Galápagos tortoise (file photo) We were saddened at last week’s news of the demise of the Galápagos tortoise “Speed,” who lived to 150 years, give or take a few.  The San Diego Zoo took him from Read More

UPDATED: Galápagos Braces for El Niño

June 25, 2019April 27, 2020 GeorgeLewisUncategorized

NOAA This year’s El Niño temperature pattern in the Pacific compared to 1997’s. In Galápagos, nobody’s rolling out the welcome mat for the recurring weather phenomenon known as El Niño.  Scientists say that it’s returning this year, bringing potentially strong winds, Read More

New “Cucumber Conflict” in Galápagos

June 25, 2019April 27, 2020 GeorgeLewisUncategorized

Courtesy of Henry Nicholls / The Conservation Business. PLoS Biol 2(9): e310. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0020310 The Galápagos Sea Cucumber, Stichopus fuscus The potential opening of sea cucumber fishing in Galápagos has scientists and conservationists surprised  and concerned after news leaked of a July Read More

Galápagos Digital » More About Us

June 25, 2019April 27, 2020 GeorgeLewisUncategorized

Cecilia Alvear Galapagos Digital was started by Cecilia Alvear a pioneering Latina television journalist and the former President of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. Cecilia presently works as a freelance video and multimedia producer. For 25 years, she was Read More

Noted Underwater Cinematographer Found Dead in Santa Cruz Home

June 25, 2019April 27, 2020 GeorgeLewisUncategorized

Women Divers Hall of Fame Valerie de la Valdene (2006 photo) Noted underwater cinematographer, teacher and scuba diver Valerie de La Valdene was found dead at her home on Santa Cruz Island, Galápagos, Friday, July 4, the apparent victim of Read More

Galapaface I: Ship Likely to be Scuttled

June 25, 2019April 27, 2020 GeorgeLewisUncategorized

Galápagos Digital graphic Map shows where the Galapaface I is aground off Punta Carola To be buried at sea.  That’s the likely fate laid out by the Director of the Galápagos National Park for the cargo ship Galapaface I, stranded on the Read More

UPDATED: New Snags in Salvage of Grounded Freighter Floreana in San Cristóbal

June 25, 2019April 27, 2020 GeorgeLewisUncategorized

Carlos Mena Páez / Radio Encantada A barge attempts to pump polluted water off the grounded freighter Floreana New problems were reported Wednesday as salvage crews try to deal with the freighter Floreana  six weeks after it ran aground in Shipwreck Bay Read More

Galápagos Digital » Recommended Books

June 25, 2019 GeorgeLewisUncategorized

Bassett, Carol Ann. Galapagos at the Crossroads: Pirates, Biologists, Tourists, and Creationists Battle for Darwin’s Cradle of Evolution. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2009. Beebe, William. Galápagos, World’s End. New York: Dover Publications, 1988. Browne, E. J. Charles Darwin: Voyaging. New Read More

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