El Niño is stronger than at any point in the past 1,000 years, coral records reveal
El Niño variability in the eastern Pacific has increased by about 36.5% compared with the pre-industrial era, according…
Experts used ‘Judas goats’ to hunt down their own kind, eliminating over 140,000 invasive goats in a $10.5 million mission to save the Galapagos’ native wildlife
In a remarkable ecological initiative, over 140,000 invasive goats have been eradicated from three areas of the Galapagos…
Meet the marine iguana: The world’s only sea-going lizard that sneezes salt and shrinks to survive |
PC: By RAF-YYC from Calgary, Canada Most reptiles never venture beyond the shore. The marine iguana built its…
Sea Lions: The islands where animals rule: Why humans give up beach chairs for sea lions
Can you imagine reaching a beach and finding all the beach chairs occupied not by visitors but by…
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 | World News
Feral goats stripped native vegetation across the Galápagos for generations before conservationists stepped in. Image Credits: Pexels When…
Inside the chilling story of the ‘Vampire Finch’: The tiny Galápagos bird that drinks blood |
When Charles Darwin first stepped onto the volcanic shores of the Galapagos, he saw a laboratory of life.…
Giant tortoises are returning to this Galápagos island nearly 150 years after they went extinct
By César Olmos with AP Published on 24/02/2026 – 7:02 GMT+1 Nearly 150 years after the last giant tortoises were removed…
This critically endangered albatross just flew 4,800km from its home – and scientists are puzzled
By MICHAEL R. BLOOD with AP Published on 30/01/2026 – 11:29 GMT+1•Updated 11:38 Scientists on a research vessel off the central…