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Droughts could change bird songs, creating new species, says study on Darwin’s finches

Liz Kimbrough 8 Nov 2024
Petrel chick in the Galapagos. Photo credit: James Muchmore

How a group in Ecuador protects 10% of the world’s bird species

Rhett A. Butler 11 Dec 2023
An area of biodiversity (including corals, crustaceans, urchins, anemones, and more) on Cacho De Coral, a newly discovered pristine coral reef.

Galápagos waters yield massive deepwater corals in latest biodiversity find

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 7 Nov 2023

Ecuador to boost protection of Galápagos in biggest debt-for-nature deal ever

Mongabay.com 11 May 2023
Rhinoceros iguana

Stamping out invasive species has successful track record on islands, study finds

John Cannon 7 Sep 2022
Hornbills — the so-called “farmers of the forest” in Africa and Asia — move more than 700 plant species up to 11 km (7 mi) in a day.

As animal seed dispersers go the way of the dodo, forest plants are at risk

Sharon Guynup 28 Apr 2022
A whale shark in Mexico. Image by MarAlliance2018 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Ecuador to announce creation of Hermandad Marine Reserve off Galapagos (commentary)

President Guillermo Lasso 13 Jan 2022

New protections announced for Galápagos Islands and beyond at COP26

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 3 Nov 2021
Paula with Floreana racer. Photo credit: Luis Ortiz Catedral

DiCaprio, conservationists launch $43M effort to restore Galápagos Islands

Rhett A. Butler 17 May 2021

Activists make the case that bigger is better to protect Galápagos reserve

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 29 Jan 2021
School of hammerhead sharks, northwest Galápagos. Photo by Greg Asner / DivePhoto.org

Could China become a partner in Galapagos marine conservation? Yolanda Kakabadse thinks so

Rhett A. Butler 16 Nov 2020

New evidence suggests China’s ‘dark’ vessels poached in Galápagos waters

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 9 Oct 2020

Past illegal activity dogs Chinese fleet that fished squid near Galapagos

Michelle Carrere 23 Sep 2020

Waters off Galápagos have way more alien species than previously known

Shreya Dasgupta 16 Apr 2019
Mantaray, northwest Galápagos. Photo by Greg Asner / DivePhoto.org

Corals thrive on remotest islands in the Galápagos

Greg Asner and Clare LeDuff 31 Jan 2018

Scientists launch global search for 25 ‘lost’ species

Shreya Dasgupta 19 Apr 2017

Distinctive sperm whale cultures reveal dramatic population shifts in the Galápagos

Yasemin Saplakoglu 23 Nov 2016

Scientists have just discovered the first endemic bird species to go extinct on the Galápagos Islands

Mike Gaworecki 22 Aug 2016

Want to end illegal fishing? Make all ships trackable, say researchers

Mongabay.com 11 Mar 2016

Linking environmental and animal movement data sets: how the Movebank Env-DATA System helps to explain snowy owl foraging behavior

Katie Taylor 24 Aug 2015

‘Lazy’ sea lion sons rely on mothers’ milk while diligent daughters learn to hunt

Nicholas Weiler 3 Apr 2015

Blue-footed boobies on the decline, plummeting sardine stocks may be to blame

Paul Sutherland 6 Aug 2014

‘Hope springs eternal’: the anniversary of the death of Lonesome George

Morgan Erickson-Davis 24 Jun 2014

Galapagos sea lions threatened by human exposure

Hannah Lindstrom 19 Jul 2013

The Role of Science for Conservation – book review

Gabriel Thoumi 18 Mar 2013

Threatened Galapagos coral may predict the future of reefs worldwide

Julian Smith 7 Nov 2012

Lonesome George passes, taking unique subspecies with him

Jeremy Hance 25 Jun 2012

Paradise & Paradox: a semester in Ecuador

An Essaymichael Rudolph 2 Feb 2011

Logging crisis pushes Madagascar’s forests on to UNESCO’s Danger List

Jeremy Hance 1 Aug 2010

Galapagos fur seals exploit warmer waters to establish colony off Peru

Jeremy Hance 25 Feb 2010

Extinctions on the rise in the Galapagos: fishing and global warming devastating islands’ species

Jeremy Hance 3 Dec 2009

Newly discovered pink iguana sheds light on Galapagos evolution

Mongabay.com 6 Jan 2009

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