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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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