Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, (EFE).- For the past 50 years, the Galapagos Islands (Ecuador) have been at the heart of a restoration and conservation program involving the rearing and reintroduction ...

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I saw the turquoise-accented avian for the first time on my recent reporting trip to the Galápagos — the Pacific volcanic islands some 600 miles off the coast of Ecuador, and home to many of ...

The spillage of more than 150,000 gallons of diesel oil from an Ecuadorean tanker near the Galapagos Islands is a "catastrophe", the environmentalist David Bellamy warned today. The spill ...

These remote islands aren’t easy to reach, but that’s exactly what makes them feel like another world. Nicknamed the "Desolation Islands," the Kerguelen archipelago lies in the southern Indian ...