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Around 1850, sailors drove giant Galápagos tortoises to extinction, keeping them as live food because they could survive for up to a year without food or water; then scientists found mysterious ‘alien’ survivors in 2000

In an astonishing twist of fate, researchers found tortoises linked to a lineage believed to have vanished 150 years ago. Genetic testing revealed descendants of the Floreana giant tortoise, reviving hopes for this extinct group. Scientists have now introduced 158 young tortoises back to Floreana Island, preserving the genetic heritage…

The Economic Times

From Galápagos penguins to giant daisy trees: Powerful El Niño could decimate rare wildlife

After the powerful 1998 El Niño, only 400 of the 1,300 existing Galápagos penguins remained.

Euronews

A stronger-than-normal El Nino alarms scientists over Galápagos wildlife and forests

The prediction that this season’s El Nino will be stronger than normal has alarmed the Ecuadorian scientific community

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In 2014, Celebrity Cruises launched reforestation with Galápagos National Park. 10 years later, the project had planted more than 85,000 plants and restored 60 acres

Celebrity Cruises now offers booking for its 2027 Galapagos expeditions. These all-inclusive voyages provide guests unique wildlife encounters and conservation opportunities. Guests can participate in reforestation efforts, planting endemic plant species. The cruise line partners with the Galapagos National Park on this vital project. Special offers are available for bookings…

The Economic Times

Galápagos corals show El Niño events are more extreme now than in past 1,000 years – here’s how my team made the discovery

Temperatures have warmed dramatically across the equatorial Pacific Ocean in 2026, signaling the onset of a strong and potentially historic El Niño. These events can affect weather around the world, and the intensity of recent El Niño events is raising alarm that, as global temperatures rise, they are becoming stronger…

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Lauren Sanchez’s journey from a teenage job at a New Mexico waterpark to luxury expeditions across world’s oceans comes into focus nearly four decades later, as her latest Galápagos trip draws attention

Lauren Sanchez's career evolved from a teenage waterpark job to marine conservation leadership. She now champions ocean protection as Vice Chair of the Bezos Earth Fund. Sanchez recently visited the Galápagos Islands to highlight shark importance. The Bezos Earth Fund supports significant marine conservation projects in the region. These initiatives…

The Economic Times

What can the Galápagos Islands’ animals teach us about the threats of El Niño?

In this week’s newsletter: the archipelago at the centre of the extreme weather phenomenon could help scientists predict how other marine ecosystems will adapt to our warming climate

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In 1997, conservationists launched a plan to kill every feral goat on the Galápagos Islands; by 2006, they had eliminated more than 140,000 of them, and vegetation and birds returned

Galápagos conservationists undertook a massive project, removing over 140,000 feral goats to protect its unique ecosystem. Employing innovative techniques like 'Judas goats,' the US$10.5 million effort, Project Isabela, proved large-scale island restoration is feasible. This success has revitalized native species and plant life, demonstrating that even vast islands can be…

The Times of India

The underwater wonders I saw on my once-in-a-lifetime trip to the Galápagos

In this week’s newsletter: Joining a research team on the Darwin and Wolf Islands off the Ecuadorian coast revealed how critically endangered species are reacting to their rapidly changing ocean environment

The Guardian - UK

Birdwatch: Going to the Galápagos for the gulls

While most visitors prefer the finches, tropicbirds and blue-footed boobies, some are drawn to less glamorous species

The Guardian - UK

The Galápagos is a wildlife haven. But is that enough to protect the rare scalloped hammerhead shark?

The species is abundant within the protected archipelago but when they migrate outside the marine reserve to give birth they run the gauntlet of industrial fishing

The Guardian - UK

These photos are more than ten years old, but scientists are still baffled by a bizarre new blue deep-sea octopus species

Researchers discovered the octopus 1.8km below the shores of the Galápagos Islands in 2015, but are still figuring out exactly what this intriguing species is

Digital Camera World

NASA satellite data and aerial imagery played a huge role in reintroducing descendants of extinct species of giant tortoise back to Galápagos Islands

For the first time in 180 years, ancestors of the extinct Floreana giant tortoise are reclaiming their ancestral homeland. But scientists required a cutting-edge tool to identify the ideal location for the release, and NASA satellite data and aerial imagery was a key component

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Giant tortoises are returning to this Galápagos island nearly 150 years after they went extinct

Rangers have released 158 juvenile hybrid tortoises on Floreana to restore the island's ecosystem.

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The Independent UK

Giant tortoises take first steps on Galápagos island after nearly 200 years

More than 150 giant tortoises have been reintroduced to Floreana Island in Ecuador’s famed Galápagos archipelago, where they disappeared more than a century ago.

The Independent UK

Galápagos park releases 158 juvenile hybrid tortoises on Floreana to restore the ecosystem

Giant tortoises have returned to Floreana Island in Ecuador's Galapagos archipelago as conservationists release 158 juvenile hybrids to restore the ecosystem

The Guardian - UK

Floreana giant tortoise reintroduced to Galápagos island after almost 200 years

Subspecies driven to extinction by hungry whalers returns after ‘back breeding’ programme using partial descendants

International Business Times UK

Scientists Dropped Cameras 80 Feet Underwater—What Appeared Was a Wake-Up Call for the World

A new underwater camera study across the Eastern Tropical Pacific reveals a dramatic divide between thriving remote marine reserves and depleted coastal protected areas, offering a global wake-up call on the state of ocean conservation.

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The Independent UK

San Diego Zoo’s oldest resident Gramma the Galápagos tortoise dies aged around 141

Her dedicated care specialists affectionately dubbed her ‘the Queen of the Zoo’

The Guardian - UK

Galápagos had no native amphibians. Then it was invaded by hundreds of thousands of frogs

Scientists are only beginning to grasp the scale of the issue and understand what impact the tree frogs may have on the islands’ rare wildlife

Latin Times

Galápagos Could Become Strategic U.S. Outpost in Anti-Drug Push as Ecuador Weighs Constitutional Change

Scientists and conservationists have raised concerns about environmental consequences as the islands are a UNESCO World Heritage Site

The Guardian - US

Galápagos Islands, wildlife haven, faces a sexual violence epidemic: ‘Protection is nonexistent’

While Ecuador’s islands are protected for its rich fauna, they are not a place of safety for many of its women and girls

LiveScience

Giant tortoise babies of first-time 100-year-old 'Mommy' unveiled at zoo

Four adorable western Santa Cruz Galápagos tortoise babies are now on display at Philadelphia Zoo after their 100-year-old 'Mommy' reproduced for the first time.

LiveScience

'Seemingly impossible': Endangered tortoise becomes first-time mom at about 100 years old

A roughly 100-year-old western Santa Cruz Galápagos tortoise has become a mom for the first time after reproducing with a male of the same age at Philadelphia Zoo.

Euronews

‘Road rage’ in paradise: Traffic noise is changing how birds in the Galápagos behave

The study flags new challenges for conservation as population growth brings humans and animals closer together.

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