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The Galápagos penguin: a unique species endemic to the archipelago

  • Author José David Cáceres
  • Posted on 1st May 202405/01/2024
  • Animals, Birds, Penguins, Sin categoría
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The Galápagos penguins are an endemic species (flightless birds exclusive to the archipelago), and they’re one of the eighteen species that inhabit the world. On April 25th, we celebrated World Penguin Day, a day to raise awareness about these aquatic flightless birds to preserve their species so that future generations get to see these distinguished

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Galapagos Hammerhead Sharks

The Galapagos conservation is in our hands: How can we preserve, among other species, the Galapagos hammerhead shark?

  • Author g4l4p4g0s
  • Posted on 17th April 202404/18/2024
  • Sin categoría
  • 0

In some parts of the world, including Darwin Island, the most northerly island of the archipelago, several hundred Galapagos hammerhead sharks gather to form large groups. In this regard, the Galapagos Marine Reserve remains one the best places in the world to see them. According to World Wide Fund, there are nearly 9,000 species in

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Update on the avian flu cases in the Galapagos Islands: site closures and reopenings  

  • Author g4l4p4g0s
  • Posted on 20th March 202403/20/2024
  • Animals, Birds
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Background context The first cases of avian flu in the Galapagos Islands occurred on September 19th, 2023. Since then, environmental authorities have made observations and avian sample collection in live and dead birds, in at least 29 places in the archipelago. In this context, among the places where the disease was found are Genovesa Island

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The red-footed boobies

  • Author g4l4p4g0s
  • Posted on 28th January 202101/28/2021
  • Birds, Birdwatching, Cruises, Nature, Photography
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We talked in our previous blog about the Nazca Booby, the largest of the three booby species inhabiting the Galapagos Islands. Today we are going to talk about the Red-footed Booby, the smallest of these kind of sea birds.  We invite you to read the following article about this incredible and fascinating native bird of

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The most exotic birds of the Galapagos Islands

The most exotic birds of the Galapagos Islands

  • Author g4l4p4g0s
  • Posted on 31st January 202002/05/2020
  • Animals, Galapagos Islands, Nature
  • 0

The majestic Enchanted Islands are located in the Pacific Ocean, 972 kilometers off the coast of Ecuador and are surrounded by thousands of miles of open sea. One of the most special attractions of this place, apart from its volcanoes, is its fauna. The Galapagos Islands have numerous of endemic species. Visitors notice about nineteen

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Species In Galapagos Are In Good State Of Conservation

95% of the species in Galapagos are in good state of conservation

  • Author g4l4p4g0s
  • Posted on 14th February 201906/13/2019
  • Animals, Galapagos Islands, Nature
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The 95% of species originally registered in the Ecuadorian archipelago of Galapagos are in “good state of conservation”. The Manager of the Galapagos National Park explained that the percentage involves all native and endemic species grouped in vertebrates, invertebrates and plants. For example, he said there are 1,238 penguins, a species classified as “very vulnerable”

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Galapagos marine iguana

Galapagos marine iguana

  • Author g4l4p4g0s
  • Posted on 14th February 201906/13/2019
  • Animals, Galapagos Islands, Nature
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Marine iguanas feed on algae at low tide and can submerge up to 20 meters (60 feet) and spend more than 60 minutes underwater. They are descendants of land iguanas of South America. Marine iguanas can live for 25 to 30 years and can grow up to one-meter length. The Galapagos marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus)

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The shell of giant tutles

The shell of the giant turtles of Galapagos could evolve to turn around by themselves

  • Author g4l4p4g0s
  • Posted on 14th February 201906/13/2019
  • Animals, Galapagos Islands
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Researchers from the University of South Alabama (United States), the University of Oporto (Portugal), Yale University (United States) and the University of Montpellier (France) point out that a type of shell could evolve so that, falling on their backs, turtles could turn around and thus reduce the danger of death. The giant tortoises of Galapagos

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Giant turtles born after 100 years

The giant tortoises are born naturally after 100 years in the Galapagos Islands

  • Author g4l4p4g0s
  • Posted on 14th February 201906/13/2019
  • Animals, Galapagos Islands, Nature
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The giant tortoises of Galapagos Islands were in danger of extinction, but Danny Rueda – head of ecosystems- decided in 2012 to take some protective measures, so that the giant tortoises can reproduce and the eggs fulfill the cycle of life. How did they manage to be born? First of all the problem had to

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