Tag: Galapagos

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  Giant Tortoise Species May Not Be So Extinct After All

  They were thought extinct, but in light of new DNA findings, scientists are echoing a very tortoise-y mantra: 'not so fast'.

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  Helicopters Drop Poison on the Galapagos Islands

  The Galapagos Islands are the model of biodiversity which inspired Charles Darwin to surmise the theory of evolution, but scientists have made arrangements to ensure that the latest round of animal deaths

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  Finally Baby-Making Time For One of a Kind Tortoise?

  If Lonesome George suffers from performance anxiety, it's hard to blame him. At the ripe old age of nearly 100, the last-of-his-kind Galapagos tortoise has been charged with preserving his species' genetic

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  Retracing Darwin's Steps, and Managing the Human Impact on the Galapagos Islands

  The difference between visiting the islands largely untouched by humans and those once habited by people is

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  Up Close and Personal with Natural Selection in Action: The Tale of Two Islands of the Galapagos

  Each of the islands in the Galapagos is incredibly different. From landscape to ecosystem to the endemic species that can only be found in that

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  Get to Know an Awesome Animal: The Galapagos Penguin

  When it comes to the Galapagos, most people think: Islands; tropical; Equator; volcanoes; some variation on those general ideas probably pops to mind, unless you've been here. If you have been here, you probably know that a

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  3 Things About Recycling the U.S. Can Learn from the Galapagos

  The ballooning rates of people coming to the Galapagos, as residents or tourists, over the past few years has created a variety of environmental concerns for the islands. Not least of these is waste management, as the

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  The Ballad of Lonesome George, The Galapagos' Most Famous Tortoise

  Lonesome George is quite a character. He's a Pinta Island tortoise, and, as Brian noted when he visited a few years ago, he's the last of this breed. Yep, that means when he's gone, that's it -- his species will

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  What is Really Being Done to Save the Galapagos?

  Conservation efforts, especially in places as renowned as the Galapagos, have something of a reputation. It's developers vs. protesters, consumers vs. conservationists, people

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  How Do You Teach Kids to Live Sustainably on an Island?

  Environmental education is playing a bigger role around the globe as we all learn more about our environmental surroundings. As

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  Are the Galapagos Islands Ready for More Tourism?

  The Galapagos Islands are like no place on earth. The Galapagos Islands have too many

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  5 Things Everyone Should Know About the Galapagos: An Introduction

  Photo credit: Wikipedia/Creative Commons 24 of the top teachers in the U.S. have been chosen to go to the Galapagos Islands, with the Toyota International Teacher Program. The program is designed to engage a variety of conservation and education issues

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  3 Lessons The Everglades Can Teach Everyone About the Environment

  All photos credit Collin Dunn Ed. note: 24 of the top teachers in the U.S. have been chosen to go to the Galapagos Islands, with a stop in the Florida Everglades, with the Toyota International Teacher Program. The program is designed to engage a variety

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  Should The Galapagos Be Taken Off The Endangered Sites List?

  Yesterday Brian wrote Galapagos Islands Moved Off Endangered Sites List, concluding:

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  Six Selfish Reasons You Don't Want Dead Oceans

  TreeHugger asked Andrew Sharpless, CEO for the Oceana ocean protection organization, why we really personally care about the health and fate of the world's big water bodies. Many of us, after all, live far from

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  Weird and Wonderful Galapagos Wildlife Worth Saving (Slideshow)

  A star-studded group of adventurers with the Mission Blue oceans conservation group went on a trip to the Galapagos earlier this month. But the true stars of the show were the incredible species endemic to the islands: many

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  Weird and Wonderful Galapagos Wildlife Worth Saving

  Darwin made a smart choice when he picked Galapagos as the place to develop his theory of natural selection: This group of islands has some of the most incredible species in the world. Earlier this month, a star-studded group of adventurers with the Missi

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  Taking Time From Volcano Frenzy to Think About Oceans

  On one side of the world, the hovering ash cloud is making it very, very difficult for millions travelers to get home and using up a lot of media air. Meanwhile on the other side of the