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Oct 31

Patrolling the waters of the Galapagos Islands
WWF International - Gland,Switzerland
A former US Coast Guard cutter, overhauled and refitted by WWF, began patrolling the waters of the Galapagos Islands today. ...
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Oct 30

More bang for your bucks
New Zealand Herald - New Zealand
But nowhere in the natural world do you get as much bang for your buck as in the Galapagos, an archipelago 960km from the South American mainland, flung into ...
Galapagos Marine Patrols Gain Speed on Seafaring Outlaws...
U.S. Newswire (press release) - Washington,DC, USA
30 /US Newswire/ -- A former US Coast Guard cutter, overhauled and refitted by World Wildlife Fund, began patrolling the waters of the Galapagos today as the ...


Oct 25

Packaged independence - Exodus launches independent travel
Easier - Chester,UK
For many, the idea of exploring the enchanted Galapagos Islands, taking an elephant ride on the spice island of Sri Lanka or trekking the Sherpa heartland of ...
Website is natural evolution for Darwin archive
Bromley Times - London,England,UK
... evolutionary works of Charles Darwin have gone online, including a microfilm copy of the stolen notebook he carried in his pocket in the Galapagos Islands.
Timing a Galapagos Vacation Requires Some Homework
PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
While the abundance of Galapagos species and mild equatorial climate make for superb sightseeing year-round, visitors with specific interests are advised to ...

Oct 24

Charles Robert Darwin was born in Shrewsbury in 1809 into a ...
News & Star - Carlisle,Cumbria,UK
... world voyage lasted nearly five years and he investigated the geology and life of the lands he visited, especially South America, the Galapagos Islands, and ...
Record 8 tons of cocaine confiscated in Costa Rica
Raw Story - Cambridge,MA,USA
... found in Central America. The cocaine was found in a ship in the Pacific, near Ecuador's Galapagos archipelago. Three Costa Rican ...
Harriet the historic tortoise
News & Star - Carlisle,Cumbria,UK
When Charles Darwin visited the Galapagos Islands in 1835 he found giant tortoises, the size of dinner tables, that were unique to the islands.

Oct 23

Going to sea to ... hike?
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
... Three additional cruises sail the Galapagos Islands. Two of By Sea's programs are exclusively for hiking - in the Galapagos and Sicily.
Teacher going to Galapagos
Cherry Hill Courier Post - Cherry Hill,NJ,USA
For 10 days this fall, Larry Ottman will put aside approximations, acceleration curves and y-intercepts to embark on an adventure in the Galapagos Islands off ...

Oct 22

A wild trip to the Galapagos Islands
Cleveland Plain Dealer - Cleveland,OH,USA
... in science, are fascinated by Darwin (who, incidentally, was the father of 10 children) and the wonders that he saw when his ship reached the Galapagos Islands ...
Sulfur Island
Atlantic Online - USA
... By coincidence, just a month before, I'd been looking at other smelly globs on the far side of the same surly ocean, in the equally isolated Galapagos Islands ...

Oct 20

Devil's Nose overrated
News24 - South Africa
On the Galapagos Islands, the poor little Darwin's Finches were described by our bird book as "plump, dull sparrow-like birds with uninteresting songs".
Ecologist lectures on endangered finches
UM Maneater - Columbia,MO,USA
Wildlife biologist Patricia Parker gives a presentation about the birds of the Galapagos Islands on Tuesday in the Life Sciences Center. ...
Notes from a small island: Charles Darwin's voyage to the ...
Independent - London,England,UK
When Charles Darwin boarded 'HMS Beagle' in 1836 and made his now celebrated journey to the Galapagos, he was just 22 years old and poised to produce a diary ...
A Website Dedicated to Darwin
Techtree.com - Mumbai,India
... van Wyhe said that one of Darwin's works, the notebook in which he had recorded his immediate thoughts on the "Galapagos Islands," was stolen in the early 1980s ...
Darwin exhibit shows the person behind the theory
The State - Columbia,SC,USA
... Among them are two Galapagos tortoises, a green iguana and horned frogs (all rented from Clyde Peeling's Reptiland, a reptile-only zoo in Allenwood, Pa.).
Plan your retirement financing carefully
Winnipeg Free Press (subscription) - Winnipeg,Manitoba,Canada
... cruise from Venice to Istanbul, an Alaskan cruise, three weeks in Mexico and a month in Arizona in the depths of winter, and then a trip to the Galapagos as a ...

Oct 19

Complete Darwin works put online
CNET News.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
Text, picture and audio file works include the stolen notebook he carried in his pocket around the Galapagos Islands. By Reuters.
Darwin goes online
Inquirer - Harrow,Middlesex,UK
... time include various editions of the revolutionary Origin Of Species, The Descent Of Man, and a field notebook from his voyage to the Galapagos Islands on the ...
Charles Darwin's works go online
BBC News - UK
... These include a remarkable field notebook from his famous Beagle voyage to the Galapagos Islands, where detailed observations of the wildlife would later forge ...
WiMAX experiment starts on Galapagos Islands
Inquirer - Harrow,Middlesex,UK
By Eva Glass: Wednesday 18 October 2006, 20:25. THE ISLANDS THAT gave Darwin some notions about evolution are also the subject of ...

Oct 18

Published Nov/Dec 2006
AAA Midwest Traveler - USA
Below: Galapagos penguins are the only species if its kind to live in warm water. They are the embodiment of the Galapagos Islands.

Oct 17

Dile's discoveries
Norman Transcript - Norman,OK,USA
By Althea Peterson. When one local teen set off for Galapagos Island last spring, she did not know what to expect. What Leah Dile ...

Oct 16

The challenge to Darwin's theory of evolution — Part 3
World Peace Herald - Washington, DC, USA
... Based on his encounter with diverse forms of life on the Galapagos Islands off Ecuador, Darwin wrote "The Origin of Species" in 1859.

Oct 15

Whaleside on the Sea of Cortez
Louisville Courier-Journal - Louisville, KY, USA
... Baja is rightfully called the "Galapagos of the North.". People who may never get to the remote Galapagos can go home with photos of blue-footed boobies.

Oct 14

The dance of the boobies
News24 - South Africa
The Galapagos is a little chain of volcanic islands, each link becoming less active as it moves away from the hotspot that spat it up. ...

Oct 12

New Scientist Press Release - Issue 14 Oct 06
Newswise (press release) - USA
... Darwin's iconic islands, the Galapagos, are under threat from two sides. The unique biodiversity of the Galapagos is already under ...
Our Hometown: The Franklin Institute
CBS 3 - Philadelphia,PA,USA
... you a lot. Two live tortoises from the Galapagos Islands entertained a group kids and CBS 3 Anchor Susan Barnett. But the animals ...
'Galapagos Face Destruction By Tourism'
Life Style Extra - UK
The Galapagos Islands - regarded by biologists as the most precious habitat on Earth - face destruction from mass tourism and the "alien species" humans bring ...
Trouble in Darwin's paradise
New Scientist (subscription) - UK
Now the Galapagos islands are facing a two-pronged attack. ... "We don't want cruise ships in the Galapagos, we don't think it's sustainable," he says.

Oct 11

Come on in, the water's fine and full of life
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
... A Galapagos shark, common in Hawaiian waters, swims past the Plexiglas window of a shark-viewing cage in the waters off of Oahu. (HAWAII SHARK ENCOUNTERS).
Trouble in Darwin's paradise
New Scientist (subscription) - UK
Can the Galapagos islands survive the onslaught of mass tourism and the invasion of non-native species? IN THE pantheon of evolutionary ...

Oct 10

FACTBOX-Key facts about Ecuador before elections
Reuters - USA
... Ecuador is home to the famous Galapagos islands, where hundreds of unique species live, including sea lions, giant tortoises and exotic birds.

Oct 9

Island life is no picnic for the elderly
Scotsman - United Kingdom
... I hadn't realised the extent or longevity of the human assault on Galapagos. It began with starving sailors in the 19th century eating all the tortoises.

Oct 8

COMING TO EXPLORATION PLACE
Kansas.com - KS,USA
... 11 to Jan. 2: Find out what comes alive when different environments -- a Kentucky cave, the Galapagos Rift and Midwestern soil -- are devoid of light. Jan.
Award-winning German naturalist Sielmann dies
Scotsman - United Kingdom
... But he gained international fame with his feature films about animal life, including award-winning works like "Lords of the Forest", "Galapagos - Dream Island ...
Hikers explore the Galapagos interior
Detroit Free Press - United States
BY GENE SLOAN. Robyne Rast of Gainesville, Fla., visits a giant tortoise during a hike on the Galapagos island of Santa Cruz. (GENE SLOAN/Gannett News Service).

Oct 6

Gestalt: Online inkblot game could boost creativity
Mobile Digest - London,England,UK
... chance to win a daily $1000 or some fantasy experiences including attending New York Fashion Week, Formula 1 racing in Monaco, or visiting the Galapagos Islands ...
The Galapagos Islands
Dallas Morning News (subscription) - TX,USA
... it drew 425,000 visitors in New York); in part because of the movie Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, which showcased the Galapagos Islands; and ...

Oct 5

Stanford Wiki launches on Web
Stanford Daily - Palo Alto,CA,USA
Happy with a class you recently took? Received a grant for a research project in the Galapagos? Discovered a great coffee shop University Ave.? ...
Time to see some boobies!
News24 - South Africa
... fantasising about walking on the sun-soaked beaches of Corfu with Mr Durrell, I also happened to watch a television program on the Galapagos Islands, although ...

Oct 4

Extinction Risk: Overfishing of ... Albatrosses
LiveScience.com - New York,NY,USA
... In just one year, fisherman caught and killed about 1 percent of the world's waved albatrosses, the largest bird in the famed Galapagos Islands, according to a ...

Oct 3

Travel Q&A: Exploring Ecuador
Seattle Times - United States
... A: Most travelers to Ecuador head for the blue-footed boobies in the Galapagos or the volcanoes in the Highlands — missing the Amazonian rain forest and its ...
Dallas Zoo prepares new fall offerings
Dallas Morning News (subscription) - TX,USA
... Other features that have opened or will open soon will be a renovated kangaroo exhibit, a just-opened Galapagos tortoise exhibit, a renovated birds of prey ...
Fisheries linked to decline in Galapagos waved albatross ...
WFU News Service - Winston-Salem,NC,USA
... Since 1999, Anderson and his research team have studied survival rates of waved albatrosses on Espanola Island in the Galapagos Islands, located off the coast ...
Galapagos on teacher's itinerary
Arizona Daily Star - Tucson,AZ,USA
Greg Burch may not get to take his students to the Galapagos Islands, but he'll do his best to bring the islands back to the classroom.
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