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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 ...
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.
A common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus). A dolphin is an aquatic mammal in the clade Odontoceti (toothed whale).Dolphins belong to the families Delphinidae (the oceanic dolphins), Platanistidae (the Indian river dolphins), Iniidae (the New World river dolphins), Pontoporiidae (the brackish dolphins), and possibly extinct Lipotidae (baiji or Chinese river dolphin).
A UNESCO mission arrived in Galapagos on 29 April to study the progress made since 2007. A favorite of visitors to the Galapagos is Tortuga Bay, located on the Santa Cruz Island, about a 20-minute walk from the main water taxi dock in Puerto Ayora. The walking path is 1.55 miles (2,490 m) and is open from six in the morning to six in the evening.
Galápagos is a three-part BBC nature documentary series exploring the natural history of the Galápagos Islands and their important role in the formation of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
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".
Galapagos (2017 TV series), a British nature documentary miniseries; Galápagos, Guadalajara, municipality of the province of Guadalajara, Spain; Galapagos penguin; Galápagos tortoise; Galapagos, a 1997 computer game by Electronic Arts; Galápagos syndrome, the phenomenon of a product or a society evolving in isolation from globalization