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There are many organizations dedicated to preventing and eradicating invasive species. For instance, the Charles Darwin Foundation helped create the Galápagos Inspection and Quarantine System (SICGAL) that checks the luggage brought into the Galapagos Islands for potentially invasive animals and plants.
Common bottlenose dolphin, (Tursiops truncatus) Cuvier's beaked whale, (Ziphius cavirostris) Sperm whale, (Physeter macrocephalus) Bryde's whale, (Balaenoptera brydei) Blue whale, (Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda) Humpback whale, (Megaptera novaeangliae) Orca, (Orcinus orca) Spinner Dolphin, (Stenella longirostris) Risso's Dolphin, (Grampus ...
This is a list of the mammal species of Vietnam. ... Spinner dolphin, Stenella longirostris; Genus: Delphinus. Common dolphin, Delphinus capensis; Genus: Lagenodelphis.
The Galápagos or Galapagos Islands are named for their giant tortoises, [3] which were more plentiful at the time of their discovery. The Spanish word galápago derives from a pre-Roman Iberian word meaning "turtle", the meaning it still has in most dialects.
Following the increasing of Internet usage in Vietnam, many online encyclopedias were published. The two largest online Vietnamese-language encyclopedias are Từ điển bách khoa toàn thư Việt Nam, a state encyclopedia, and Vietnamese Wikipedia, a project of the Wikimedia Foundation.
Leon is a Vietnam War veteran who is affected by the massacres in Vietnam. He goes AWOL and settles in Sweden, where he works as a shipbuilder and dies during the construction of the ship, the Bahía de Darwin. This ship is used for the "Nature Cruise of the Century".
An experimental Wikipedia edition in the obsolete chữ Nôm script began in October 2006 at the Wikimedia Incubator. [6] It was deleted in April 2010. [7] [non-primary source needed] The Vietnam Wikimedians User Group supports the development of the Vietnamese Wikipedia and other Vietnamese-language Wikimedia projects.
Từ điển bách khoa Việt Nam (lit: Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Vietnam) is a state-sponsored Vietnamese-language encyclopedia that was first published in 1995. It has four volumes consisting of 40,000 entries, the final of which was published in 2005. [1] The encyclopedia was republished in 2011.