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Galapagos Airport reduced 40% of CO2 emissions

  • Author DAVID GORDILLO
  • Posted on 26th June 201926/06/2019
  • Ecology, Galapagos Islands, Nature
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Seymour airport received a certification of CarbonNeutral, becoming the first airport in Latin America and the Caribbean to win this recognition. The certification was granted by the International Airport Council in December 2017. CarbonNeutral certification is given when airport CO2 emissions have been significantly reduced by optimization techniques. “It is an important milestone, because the

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Ecuador internationalizes the fight against illegal fishing around the Galapagos

  • Author DAVID GORDILLO
  • Posted on 14th June 201914/06/2019
  • Animals, Ecology, Galapagos Islands, Nature
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Galapagos was declared a national park in 1959, in order to protect the 97.5% of the terrestrial surface of the archipelago. The remaining area is occupied by human settlements that already existed at the time of the declaration. By then, approximately 1000 to 2000 people lived in four islands. In 1972 a census determined that

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Galapagos Airport, the first in the region to achieve a neutral carbon certificate

  • Author DAVID GORDILLO
  • Posted on 5th June 201905/06/2019
  • Ecology, Galapagos Islands, Nature
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The ecological airport became the first to get the ‘Carbon Neutral’ certificate in Latin America and the Caribbean. This recognition is granted by the Airports Council International (ACI), through the Airport Carbon Accreditation program, the only institutional system “that evaluate and recognize the efforts made by participating airports to manage and reduce their emissions of

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Galapagos: important for Ecuador and the world

  • Author DAVID GORDILLO
  • Posted on 28th May 201928/05/2019
  • Ecology, Galapagos Islands
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BiodiversityIt is a unique place for the ecosystems and the biodiversity that it shelters, that is not found in any other place of the planet. InvestigationIt is considered the best natural laboratory for the analysis of the evolution of the species. Additionally, it is a reference point for evaluating the global ecological phenomena such as El

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Charles Darwin

  • Author g4l4p4g0s
  • Posted on 21st May 201921/05/2019
  • Galapagos Islands
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Darwin and his theory In 1835, a hundred and seventy-eight years ago, a British young man aboard the HMS Beagle, under the command of Commander Robert Fitz-Roy, was on these coasts. A naturalist of only twenty-two whose work made the Beagle one of the most famous ships in history. This famous brigantine of the British

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New ‘Big Birds’ in Galapagos arose super fast

  • Author g4l4p4g0s
  • Posted on 21st May 201921/05/2019
  • Animals, Galapagos Islands, Nature
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The process of speciation usually takes millions years depending on many natural factors. But for a new species of finches, it happened in just two generations, and some scientists were able to see this magnificent process. The new lineage comes from a process of hybridization of two different species of Darwin’s finches. While conducting the

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Galapagos Airport reduced 40% of CO2 emissions

  • Author g4l4p4g0s
  • Posted on 21st May 201921/05/2019
  • Ecology, Environment, Galapagos Islands
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Seymour airport received a certification of CarbonNeutral, becoming the first airport in Latin America and the Caribbean to win this recognition. The certification was granted by the International Airport Council in December 2017. CarbonNeutral certification is given when airport CO2 emissions have been significantly reduced by optimization techniques. “It is an important milestone, because the

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Galapagos penguin

  • Author g4l4p4g0s
  • Posted on 21st May 201921/05/2019
  • Animals, Galapagos Islands, Nature
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The Galapagos penguin, endemic to the archipelago, is a penguin species that lives in the “Northernmost place of the world”. Most of its population is found on the rocky coast of the islands: Fernandina and Isabela, the westernmost islands of the Galapagos. It is the third smallest penguin species on the planet. It is incredibly

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Marchena Island

  • Author g4l4p4g0s
  • Posted on 21st May 201921/05/2019
  • Galapagos Islands
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The Marchena Island is north of the equinoctial line and west the Genovesa Island. Although Marchena is not open to ground visitors, the cruises take passengers to Punta Espejo to dive. The waters are very clear, and you can see hundreds of marine species, including Damsels, parrotfish and Moorish idols. A large proportion of Marchena

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Ecuador internationalizes the fight against illegal fishing around the Galapagos

  • Author g4l4p4g0s
  • Posted on 21st May 201921/05/2019
  • Ecology, Environment, Galapagos Islands, News
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Galapagos was declared a national park in 1959, in order to protect the 97.5% of the terrestrial surface of the archipelago. The remaining area is occupied by human settlements that already existed at the time of the declaration. By then, approximately 1000 to 2000 people lived in four islands. In 1972 a census determined that

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