Galapagos

Will Galapagos become the Pacific's Ibiza?

A fierce rearguard action is being fought to prevent the Galapagos – the world's most renowned wildlife site – being damaged by development.

Galapagos

Mosquitoes brought by tourists can have devastating effect in the Galapagos

LONDON – The unique wildlife of the Galapagos Islandsis under threat from disease-carrying mosquitoes arriving on board growing numbers of aircraft and tourist boats, researchers said on Wednesday.

Galapagos Tourism

Andrew Marr warns of threat to Darwin's Galapagos islands

As early as last summer, before the Darwin commemoration caravan really got rolling, it was clear that this year was going to be one of the busiest ever for tourism in the Galapagos Islands.

Galapagos

Galapagos expels citizens as a flood of tourists threatens islands

A few weeks ago, 19 Ecuadorean citizens detained on these world-renowned islands were marched onto a plane and sent back to the continent under armed guard. Their crime? Illegal migration.

Galapagos

Galapagos under siege

The remote islands are known for a prehistoric landscape. A flock of well-meaning ecotourists is posing a new threat.

Most of the wild goats that ravaged this famous archipelago, denuding some islands of their vegetation, have been hunted down. The same goes for the wild pigs that ate turtle eggs and killed small animals. Now comes the ... read more