Ecuador News » Galapagos News Ecuador » Galapagos » History: 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 » History: 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 » History: Ecuador Enlarges Galapagos Marine Reserve, Darwin’s Dream
GLASGOW, Scotland, November 5, 2021 (ENS) – Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso has just expanded the marine reserve around the Galapagos Islands by 45 percent and created a protected swimway from ...
News Ecuador » Galapagos » History: 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 » History: How drug traffickers made the Galápagos Islands their gas station
ISABELA, Ecuador — Charles Darwin described it as the most desolate of the Galápagos Islands, an almost extraterrestrial outpost crawling with giant tortoises and marine iguanas found nowhere else in ...
News Ecuador » Galapagos » History: Ecuador says it will extend protections around the Galápagos Islands.
President Guillermo Lasso said his government had agreed with Ecuador’s fishery, tourism and conservation sectors to establish a marine reserve of more than 23,000 square miles. By Marc Santora and ...