Megan Murphy, Bloomberg: The Galapagos Islands national park service has filed a lawsuit in London to recover more than $10 million in damages for a 2001 oil spill that threatened the archipelago’s famed ecosystem. Read the rest of this entry »
Tom Chesshyre, Times Online: ::nobreak::Conservationists fear that forthcoming BBC programmes about the Galapagos islands will lead to a tourist boom that could damage the fragile ecosystem of the remote Ecuadorean islands.From the end of the month, BBC Two is running three hour-long programmes on the Galapagos, while Equator, another BBC Two series, features the islands tomorrow. The current BBC Wildlife magazine features the Galapagos islands on its front cover, and Radio 4 is also planning coverage. Read the rest of this entry »
BBC News : Maria Esther de Capovilla - officially the world’s oldest woman - has died in Ecuador aged 116, relatives said.Capovilla died at dawn on Sunday in the coastal city of Guayaquil after succumbing to pneumonia. Her funeral was planned for Monday. Read the rest of this entry »
Taipei Times, Ecuador. EMERGENCY: Tungurahua volcano has covered a large area in ash, and those fleeing the scene not only require food and medicine, but feed for their livestock as well. Read the rest of this entry »
Steve Mirsky, Scientific American: Four score and seven years and four score and nine more years ago, a tortoise hatched in the Galápagos. She spent the past half a century known as Harriet. For more than a century before that, she was called Harry. Before that she almost was called dinner, but fate had other plans. Her heart, which began beating when Abraham Lincoln was barely out of his teens, finally stopped on June 23. Her fame came from her longevity and from her celebrity friends. She spent her last years at the Australia Zoo in Queensland, run by Terri and Steve “the Crocodile Hunter” Irwin. And she was most likely rescued from the soup tureen that she strongly resembled by Charles Darwin. Yes, that Charles Darwin, born the same day as Lincoln. Read the rest of this entry »
Original article: http://www.latindiscover.com/newsarticle.asp?news=114
Media:ABC News politics - USA
Date:July 24, 2006
Finches Named for Charles Darwin on Galapagos Islands Evolve Smaller Beak, Confirming His Theory
By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID AP Science Writer
The Associated PressWASHINGTON - Finches on the Galapagos Islands that inspired Charles Darwin to develop the concept of evolution are now helping confirm it by evolving.
A medium sized species of Darwin’s finch has evolved a smaller beak to take advantage of different seeds just two decades after the arrival of a larger rival for its original food source. Read the rest of this entry »
Original article: http://www.latindiscover.com/newsarticle.asp?news=117
Media: TVNZ - New Zeland
Date: July 17, 2006
Ecuador’s Tungurahua volcano spewed gas and ash for the fourth day on Monday as droves of evacuees returned home to salvage what little was left from their ash-covered villages. Read the rest of this entry »
