This Ecuadorean island group is home to 6 species of giant tortoises found nowhere else on Earth
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Galapagos - Luxury Escapes  The giant tortoises roam this wildlife sanctuary of over 29,441 square miles (50,000 ... Ocean five to six hundred miles west of Ecuador, embrace one of the Earth's ... and mammals on the Galpagos Islands are found nowhere else in the world. ... Several species of land iguanas, gecko lizards, and a snake also inhabit the...
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Home to Unusual Creatures: The Galapagos - mission language lab  The islands are named for the giant tortoises that live there. Galapagos has been ... Many of these animals are found nowhere else in the world. The committee...
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Giant tortoise - Wikipedia  Giant tortoises are characteristic reptiles that are found on two groups of tropical islands: the ... 6 Mascarenes giant tortoises ... It is the only Indian ocean giant tortoise species alive today, others having ... a World Heritage Site, and is home to some 152,000 Aldabra giant tortoises, the world's largest population of this species.
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Island Ecology Program - Bancroft School  Observe animals found nowhere else on earth.  Explore secluded waters. & islands. Highlights. Your Home in the Pacific: The Galapagos Islands are a world-renowned ... Ecuador's coast, and the surrounding waters are protected as the Galapagos ... volcanoes, and emblematic species like the giant tortoise and Darwin's...
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The Galapagos Islands | Places | WWF  Six hundred miles off the coast of Ecuador lie the volcanic islands of the Galpagos, famous for a wealth of unique plants and animals found nowhere else in the world. ... Sea lion, Galapagos penguin, Giant tortoise, Great white shark, Leatherback ... Illegal fishing, non-native species and the demands of more than 160,000...
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New monitor lizard discovered in Indonesia -- ScienceDaily  Apr 27, 2010 ... A newly discovered species of monitor lizard, a close relative of the Komodo dragon, has been discovered on Moluccan islands of east Indonesia. ... found Australia's first human inhabitants had to contend with giant ... Top News  Top Videos  Human Quirks  Odd Creatures  Bizarre Things  Weird World.
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Southeastern Asia: Lesser Sundas Islands, Indonesi - World Wildlife ...  The Lesser Sundas Deciduous Forests [AA0201] are found on a string of ... including the Komodo dragon, the largest lizard in the world, and seventeen bird ... The islands represent tertiary and quaternary volcanoes that have coalesced with lava .... 10 percent of the ecoregion area, but most of the protected areas are small,...
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Galpagos Islands, off the coast of Ecuador | Ecoregions | WWF  The Galapagos Islands are part of Ecuador although they lie in the Pacific ... There are approximately 128 named islands in the archipelago with Isabela .... Galapagos ecoregion; the two major groups include seabirds and landbirds. .... Protected Areas Datasheet on the Perque Nacioal Galapagos, Archipielago de Colon.
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Galapagos 1 - Tenayatravels  Apr 17, 2010 ... Originally called the Enchanted Islands and now officially known as the Archipielago de Colon, most of us know these volcanic islands as the Galapagos Islands. ... most of the 19 islands, is about 600 miles from mainland Ecuador. ... Our first stop was at Isla Lobos, an island just offshore with shallow water...
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Birds of South America - Unique South America Travel Experience  With over 3,000 species, the list of birds of South America comprises the most ... Equally impressive is the range of habitats on which they thrive. ... Let's just consider that only the Amazon rainforest is home to over 1,000 species of birds, each of ... The imposing Harpy eagle (Harpia harpyja) - one of the world's largest out of...
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Channel Islands | The Channel Islands | Pinterest | Channel Islands ...  See more about Channel Islands, Guernsey and Victor Hugo. ... Galapagos - California's eight Channel Islands are one of our planet's richest marine biosphere reserves. ... Channel Islands National Park - We went here (Santa Cruz island) Labor .... One hundred and forty-five of these species are unique to the islands and...
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Tourism in Ecuador - Wikipedia  Ecuador is a country with vast natural and cultural wealth. The diversity of its four regions has ... Ecuador is crossed from north to south by a volcanic section of Andes 70 ... The Galpagos Islands are famous for its numerous endemic species and ..... called the national tree of Ecuador, and an so many variety of orchids.
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Ecuador - The Galapagos Islands - Geographia  Ecuador's most beloved and popular national park lies in splendid isolation about 960 kilometers off the mainland. ... Though the name Darwin is inseparable from the islands' history, they were actually discovered in 1535 by a Spanish bishop...
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Land of Giants | Discovery Reptiles's Blog  Feb 26, 2010 ... There are stories from tribes deep in the heart of the Amazon Basin of Giant ... There are over 2,900 species of Snakes in the World but only around ... There have never been any records of Boa Constrictors reaching 20 feet long. ... Salt Water Crocodiles can reach 25 feet long and almost 3000 pounds and...
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Island Invasives - ISSG  IUCN is the world's oldest and largest global environmental organization, with ... The Invasive Species Specialist Group (ISSG) - one of five Disciplinary ...... x 48 cm Tomahawk box traps with meat bait (Nellis 1982) ... reports of a mongoose sighting at the Port of Miami on ...... Nuku Hiva (Marquesas Is., French Polynesia).
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Dry Tortugas History | Learn About The Dry Tortugas  Discovered by Ponce de Leon in 1513, the Dry Tortugas were named after the large population of sea turtles living in the island's surrounding waters. ... It is also because of these large reefs surrounding the Tortugas that the U.S. was able ... to warn sailors and visitors that they needed to bring their own fresh water to drink.
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Free Flashcards about EQUATOR - StudyStack  THESE ISLAND WERE NAMED FROM THE SPANISH FOR "SADDLES", FOR THE SADDLEBACK TORTOISES FOUND THERE, GALAPAGOS ISLANDS.
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Unusual wildlife  Madagascar  Our Africa  Jul 25, 2013 ... The lemurs are perhaps the most famous animal found only in ... For example, most of the world's tenrecs are found only in Madagascar and nearby islands, where there ... The tenrecs in the video are the largest land-dwelling species. ... though they have a very small tail  these animals are insectivores.
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Long-Extinct Galpagos Tortoise Species May Be On Its Way Back ...  Dec 14, 2015 ... Website Name ... The giant tortoises of the Galpagos Islands are famous for their ... for these prehistoric-looking creatures, using an old Spanish world for tortoise ... and were easier to catch than the domed tortoises; saddleback meat was ... Back in 2008, scientists tagged some 1,600 giant tortoises found...
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Komodo Dragon - Background - Here Be Dragons  Living on a tiny island called Komodo, the ancestors of these giant lizards were ... the 17,000 islands between the Pacific and Indian oceans known as Indonesia. ... similar to the modern day deer and wild boar may also have been present. .... The Komodo dragon is totally carnivorous and eat anything they can overpower.
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Galapagos Islands | islands, Ecuador | Britannica.com  May 12, 2016 ... ... athwart the Equator 600 miles (1,000 km) west of the mainland of Ecuador. Their total land area of 3,093 square miles (8,010 square km) is scattered ... The Galapagos Islands were discovered in 1535 by the bishop of Panama, Toms de Berlanga, whose ship had drifted off course while en route to Peru.