Ecuador News » Galapagos News Ecuador » Galapagos » Commerce: Off Ecuador's Galapagos, a former shark-poaching ship's new mission
When Ecuador's navy seized a Chinese-flagged ship off the Galapagos Islands in 2017, its hold brimmed with tons and tons of poached fish, many of them threatened species like hammerhead and thresher ...
News Ecuador » Galapagos » Commerce: Ecuador to boost protection of Galápagos in biggest debt-for-nature deal ever
Ecuador has launched a debt-for-nature deal that will wipe out some $1 billion in interest payments in exchange for boosting its protection of the waters around the Galápagos Islands. Much of the ...
News Ecuador » Galapagos » Commerce: Ecuador to reintroduce species on Galapagos island
Ecuador's government has announced it will spend $3.4 million on reintroducing 12 endemic bird and turtle species that have disappeared from an island in the Galapagos archipelago where Charles Darwin ...
News Ecuador » Galapagos » Commerce: CNT Ecuador Migrating to SES’s O3b mPOWER to Bring Enhanced Internet and Mobile Services to Galapagos Islands
To help Ecuador accelerate its digital inclusion initiative across the environmentally-fragile Galapagos Islands, telecom provider CNT and SES today announced a major Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) ...
News Ecuador » Galapagos » Commerce: Ecuador Strikes a Landmark Deal to Protect the Galápagos, and Save Cash
Ecuador announced a record-setting deal on Tuesday designed to reduce its debt burden and free up hundreds of millions of dollars to fund marine conservation around the Galápagos Islands, an ...
News Ecuador » Galapagos » Commerce: Ecuador's navy ready to combat illegal fishing around the Galapagos Islands
Ecuador’s navy is ready to protect the seas around the Galapagos Islands from illegal fishing by foreign ships whose annual visits threaten marine wildlife in the archipelago’s waters, following ...