Galapagos
About Galapagos
The Galápagos Islands are an archipelago of volcanic islands in the Eastern Pacific, located around the equator, 485 nautical miles west of the mainland of South America. They form the Galápagos Province of the Republic of Ecuador, with a population of slightly over 33,000 in 2020. The province is divided into the cantons of San Cristóbal, Santa Cruz, and Isabela, the three most populated islands in the chain. The Galápagos are famous for their large number of endemic species, which were studied by Charles Darwin in the 1830s and inspired his theory of evolution by means of natural selection. All of these islands are protected as part of Ecuador's Galápagos National Park and Marine Reserve.
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Diego is a Hood Island tortoise on the Galapagos, and in the 1960s only three males and about a dozen females were left, so they started a breeding program.
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In his book the buccaneer describes being in the Galapagos looking at the turtles, saying they look a different breed and wondering if that helps their mating.
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