Browsing by Place "Galapagos"

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    • Chinese jailed for fishing in Galapagos 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Manila Standard, August 29, 2017, on page C3)
      A court in Ecuador sentenced the crew if a Chinese ship caught fishing endangered sharks in the Galapagos marine reserve to prison. The Chinese-flagged Fu Yuan Yu Leng 999 was caught within the protected zone on August 13 ...

    • Galapagos hosts nursery for new tortoise species 

      (Manila Standard, February 2, 2017, on page B3)
      Crowded under a rock in the Galapagos archipelago, the baby tortoises wait for the sun to go down to leave their shelter. Nothing disturbs these eastern Santa Cruz tortoises (scientific name Chelondis donfaustoi), which ...

    • Sexploits of tortoise save Galapagos species 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (The Philippine Star, September 15, 2016, on page A20)
      Diego, a Galapagos giant tortoise, has fathered an estimated 800 offspring, almost single-handedly rebuilding the species’ population on their native island, Española, the southernmost in the Galapagos Archipelago. “He’s ...