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Animals News tagged with Galapagos

Galapagos: The Tourist Trap
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, Galapagos, wildlife, environment, habitat, protection )

Cher
- 103 days ago - zsl.org
Mosquitoes with the potential to carry diseases lethal to many unique species of Galapagos wildlife are being regularly introduced to the islands via aircraft, according to new research published today.
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Mosquito Threat to Giant Tortoise
Animals  (tags: animals, tortoises, mosquitoes, Galapagos, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 176 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
The famous Galapagos giant tortoises could be at serious risk from mosquitoes that have developed a taste for reptile blood, experts have warned.
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Mosquito Evolution Spells Trouble for Galapagos Wildlife
Animals  (tags: animals, Galapagos, mosquitoes, reptiles, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 176 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
The Galapagos giant tortoise and other iconic wildlife species are facing a new threat from disease, as some of the islands' mosquitoes develop a taste for reptile blood.
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Lonesome George's First Sex in Decades Ends in Disappointment
Animals  (tags: galapagos, wildlife, wild animals, turtle, george, mating, infertile egges, endangered, extinction, protection )

Jacquelin
- 354 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
The 90-year-old raised hopes earlier in the summer when he successfully mated with two female tortoises of another subspecies after decades of disinterest in the other sex. The resulting batch of around a dozen eggs caused excitement around the world that
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Antarctic More Diverse Than Galapagos Islands, Claim British Scientists
Animals  (tags: antarctic, galapagos, marine wildlife, diverse, species )

Jacquelin
- 357 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
The freezing islands of the Antarctic are home to more species of animals than the Galapagos, according to the first inventory of life in the region. A team from the British Antarctic Survey and University of Hamburg spent seven weeks studying life on t
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Scientists May Be Able to Recreate Extinct Species of Galapagos Tortoises
Animals  (tags: galapagos, wildlife, wild animals, research, galapagos turtles, extinct, extinction, humans )

Jacquelin
- 423 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
Yale scientists have found that some existing tortoises in the Galapagos contain genetic traces of extinct species of Galapagos tortoises, a finding that could spur breeding programs to restore the species. September 2008. When Darwin first visited th
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Galapagos Eruption No Threat to Giant Turtles
Animals  (tags: giant toroises, volcano, Galapagos, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 542 days ago - timesofindia.indiatimes.com
A volcano in the Galapagos islands that spewed molten lava is not a threat to 100-year-old giant tortoises living around the crater, island officials said on Friday.
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Sea Lions Massacred in Galapagos
Animals  (tags: sea lions, slaughtered seal lions, Galapagos, animal murders, animals brutally killed, scum, sadness )


- 666 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Ecuadorean officials are investigating the slaughter of 53 sea lions from the Galapagos Islands nature reserve, which were found with their heads caved in.
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Galapagos Conservancy - Extinction Alert! - Emergency Action Is Needed to Save the Mangrove Finch(Cactospiza Heliobates)
Animals  (tags: endangered, extinction, protection, wildlife, Birds, animalsuffering, environment, Galapagos, Isabela, Islands )

Thunderr
- 772 days ago - galapagos.org
Found only in Galapagos,there are now fewer than 50 pairs of mangrove finches left on earth.This finch survives only in two small pockets of mangrove forest on the northwest coast of Isabela Island,and has been listed as critically endangered by the IUCN
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DNA Search Gives Hope to Tortoise
Animals  (tags: Galapagos, tortoise, reptile, conservation, preservation, halt decline, protection )

Rooibos
- 938 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
The giant Galapagos tortoise that became a conservation icon when it appeared he was the last of his kind is not so alone after all.
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