galapagos islands animals list

The Pinta Island, a member of the Galapagos Island host many unique species such as giant tortoises, marine iguana and fur seals. The beautiful place became an environmental nightmare when feral goats and other animals were introduced...


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The islands have been on the


The Red List of Threatened


The Galapagos Islands are


The Galapagos Islands are home


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Each species is unique to only one or a few islands – similar to the Galapagos tortoises – and has evolved to thrive in its unique habitat. Centuries of combined pressure from hunting, predation by non-native species, and poaching for the pet trade, pushed iguanas to the brink. Of the two subspecies on the Exuma Islands, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists one as critically endangered and the other as endangered. Iguanas Research...
Iguanas Research Trip to Bahamas with Shedd Aquarium

The Galapagos Islands are an archipelago on which have evolved a fantastic range of different species of marine, avian and land animals independently from the mainland of South America – species which you can find in no...
galapagos islands animals list