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Peter Grant Has Documented Evolution in Action
  + stars: | 2023-06-03 | by ( Emily Bobrow | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Around two million years ago, a group of birds from South America flew 600 miles west to make their home on the Galápagos Islands. They belonged to a single species, but by the time Charles Darwin arrived in the Galápagos in the 1830s he found nearly 10 different species, with beaks of various shapes and sizes. He deduced that the birds, now known as Darwin’s finches, developed these differences to keep from competing for the same food: pointy beaks were better for catching insects, broad beaks were handy for cracking seeds.
Persons: Charles Darwin Organizations: South America Locations: South, Galápagos
CNN —It’s hard not to feel a little sorry for the Ecuadorian capital of Quito. Singular churchesInside the Spanish colonial church of San Francisco in the city center of Quito. The museum even puts on a variety of shows, including a karaoke night of traditional Ecuadorian song. It’s especially busy at lunchtime when it fills to capacity with locals looking to indulge in affordable traditional Ecuadorian cuisine. Guided toursMetropolitan Touring’s “Live Quito Like a Local” walking tour is great for visitors with only a day or two to explore Quito.
The NewsEcuador 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 archipelago of unique biodiversity that’s famous for inspiring Darwin’s theory of evolution. The arrangement, known as a debt-for-nature deal, is a bit like refinancing a mortgage, only for government bonds. Gustavo Manrique Miranda, the Ecuadorean foreign minister, called it a historic agreement that takes into account the value of nature. He said Ecuador was as wealthy as any of the richest countries in the world, “but our currency is the biodiversity.”
LONDON, May 9 (Reuters) - Ecuador sealed the world's largest "debt-for-nature" swap on record on Tuesday, selling a new "blue bond" that will funnel at least $12 million a year into conservation of the Galapagos Islands, one of the world's most precious ecosystems. Tuesday's $656 million "Galapagos Bond," as it has been dubbed, will run until 2041 and gave investors that bought it a 5.645% "coupon" or interest rate, its bankers said. Ecuador sovereign bonds currently yield from 17% to 26%, but the new bond has an $85 million 'credit guarantee' from the Inter-American Development Bank and $656 million of political risk insurance from the U.S. International Development Finance Corp (DFC), effectively making it less risky. The driver has been the remote Galapagos Islands, some 600 miles (970 km) off Ecuador's mainland coast, that inspired Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution. Scott Nathan, the chief executive of DFC, said people needed to "stay tuned" for similar deals in other countries and the Galapagos deal had been a long time coming.
NEW YORK, May 4 (Reuters) - Credit Suisse repurchased Ecuadorean sovereign notes worth $1.6 billion in face value, the country's bankers said on Thursday, freeing cash for conservation of the unique Galapagos Islands in the biggest debt-for-nature swap ever struck. The buyback will free cash that Ecuador will put into conservation of its Galapagos Islands, one of the world's most precious ecosystems and the inspiration for Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution. The offer, laid out by Credit Suisse late last month, amounts to the biggest debt-for-nature swap, as such transactions are known in banking circles, struck to date. The move has a political crisis as backdrop, as the National Assembly is in the middle of an impeachment process against President Guillermo Lasso for alleged embezzlement, allegation Lasso denies. Reporting by Rodrigo Campos; Editing by Sandra MalerOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
[1/4] A pelican is seen on Santa Cruz Island, part of the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. REUTERS/Santiago ArcosLONDON, April 26 (Reuters) - Ecuador has launched a long-awaited debt buyback plan that will free up money to protect its Galapagos Islands, one of the world's most precious ecosystems and the inspiration for Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution. "The Offeror is making the Offer... as part of a broader refinancing operation to channel savings and promote certain conservation and sustainability efforts," the buyback plan said. The operation is private, the country's finance ministry said in a message to journalists, and cannot be discussed. Reporting by Marc Jones; Editing by Sandra MalerOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
Courtesy Amelia Earhart Hangar MuseumAmelia Earhart wasn’t just the first woman to fly solo over the Atlantic. Camelot Theme Park (England): Set in the leafy Lancashire countryside, the Magic Kingdom of Camelot resurrected tales of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. Scott Audette/AP Pripyat Amusement Park (Ukraine): This theme park was orphaned in 1986 following the Chernobyl meltdown just five kilometers (three miles) away. Considered the first theme park in Southeast Asia, it featured an artificial lake, huge swimming pool with giant water slides and a Prehistoric Animal Kingdom. Anne Jones/Alamy Stock Photo 10 fascinating theme parks that have closed forever Prev NextThat’s the question posed by these no-longer-in-operation theme parks around the world.
Coral reef discovered in Ecuador's Galapagos Islands
  + stars: | 2023-04-18 | by ( ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +1 min
Quito, Ecuador Reuters —A scientific expedition has discovered a previously unknown coral reef with abundant marine life off Ecuador’s Galapagos Islands, the country’s environment ministry said on Monday. “A deepwater scientific expedition has found the first totally pristine coral reef, approximately two kilometers (1.2 miles) long, at 400 meters (deep), on the summit of a submarine mountain,” Environment Minister Jose Davalos said on Twitter. “Galapagos surprises us again.”Scientists had believed that the only Galapagos reef to survive El Nino weather in 1982 and 1983 was one called the Wellington reef, along the coast of Darwin Island, but the new discovery shows other coral has persisted, the ministry said in a statement. The South American country last year expanded the Galapagos marine reserve by 60,000 square kilometers (23,166 square miles), an extension of the 138,000 square kilometers already in place, to protect endangered migratory species between the Galapagos and the Cocos Island in Costa Rica. The Galapagos, which inspired Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, are also home to giant tortoises, albatrosses, cormorants and other species, some of which are endangered.
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Ecuador volcano releases ash cloud affecting parts of capital
  + stars: | 2022-12-20 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
QUITO, Dec 20 (Reuters) - The Ecuadorean Geophysical Institute on Tuesday detected a column of gases and ashes rising from the crater of the Cotopaxi volcano, as part of its ongoing eruptive activity, affecting several areas of capital city Quito with volcanic ash. The volcano's last eruptive activity took place between August and December 2015. Ecuador's Risk Management service said on its Twitter account that ash fall was light in affected areas, including Quito. The capital's airport operated normally on Tuesday, and said on its Twitter account that the ash fall had so far not affected its operations. Authorities are permanently monitoring Cotapaxi, which is one of the active volcanoes located throughout Ecuador and in the Galapagos Islands.
[1/5] A hammerhead shark swims after a shark nursery was discovered off Isabela Island in the Galapagos, Ecuador, in this photo delivered by Galapagos National Park newsletter on December 16, 2022. "The discovery of these new breeding areas is very important, especially for the hammerhead shark," said park ranger Eduardo Espinoza in a statement on Friday from the Galapagos National Park. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) considers the scalloped hammerhead shark, the species found in the Galapagos, as "critically endangered." Researchers spent months scouring the archipelago for possible nursery sites as part of a hammerhead shark monitoring program. Researchers are monitoring the nurseries to track the young shark population in nursery areas and to follow their migration patterns.
"There's now a big push to get nature into sovereign debt markets," said Simon Zadek, executive director at NatureFinance, which advises governments on debt-for-nature swaps and other types of climate-focused finance. At that level, it would be the biggest debt-for-nature swap struck to date. The combined value of swap deals to date is $3.7 billion, according to the data. Securing the buy-in of development banks is usually key for the economics of a deal. The WWF has projects in Central and South America where they are monitoring deforestation by tracking jaguars, said Brenes, who has worked on debt-for-nature swaps for the last 25 years.
Hard-to-access places like the Arctic Circle and Galapagos Islands are bucket-list travel hot spots. These well-off wanderlusters have helped create a travel-industry boom, with pent-up demand pushing bucket-list travel into this year's shoulder seasons. American Express Travel's 2022 Global Travel Trends report, which used polling data collected in early February 2022, confirms the move toward bucket-list travel this year. Quality time with loved ones matters above allBut not all bucket-list travel experiences need to be in far-flung corners of the world. Finnegan said traveling with his family made it a bucket-list trip.
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Oct 16 (Reuters) - A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck in the Pacific Ocean between Central America and the Galapagos Islands on Sunday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said, but there were no initial reports of damage. The quake hit at a depth of 10 kilometers (6 miles), according to the USGS, and the U.S. Tsunami Warning Center said no warning had been issued for a potential tsunami. A spokesperson for civil protection authorities in Panama said they had not received word of any impact. Authorities in Ecuador, of which the Galapagos Islands are part, likewise did not have any immediate reports of damage from the quake. Earlier, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre had reported the quake at a magnitude of 6.4.
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Ecuador a confirmat, marți, că o țestoasă gigant descoperită în 2019 în Insulele Galapagos face parte dintr-o specie considerată dispărută acum 100 de ani, informează Digi24. Parcul Național Galapagos pregătește o expediție pentru a căuta mai multe exemplare, într-o tentativă de a salva specia. "Universitatea Yale a prezentat rezultatul studiilor genetice și comparația ADN care a fost făcută cu un specimen extras în 1906", a anunțat Parcul Galapagos. Populația de broaște țestoase gigant din Insulele Galapagos este estimată la 60.000 de exemplare din diferite specii. Turiștii din toată lumea vin în Insulele Galapagos pentru a vedea biodiversitatea care a inspirat teoria evoluției a lui Charles Darwin.
Persons: Gustavo Manrique, Charles Darwin Organizations: Universitatea Yale, UNESCO Locations: Ecuador, Insulele, Insulele Galapagos
Sursa foto: ewz.roAtracţie turistică, pierdută pentru totdeauna; Arcul lui Darwin s-a prăbuşit în mareArcul lui Darwin, una dintre cele mai cunoscute formaţiuni stâncoase din Insulele Galapagos, s-a prăbuşit în mare. „Prăbuşirea Arcului lui Darwin, podul natural aflat la mai puţin de un kilometru de principala zonă a Insulei Darwin, a fost anunţată”, a scris ministerul. Arcul lui Darwin a făcut parte, la un moment dat, din Insula Darwin, care este acum deschisă pentru vizitare. Botezat după biologul englez Charles Darwin, arcul este considerat unul dintre cele mai bune locuri pentru sărituri şi scufundări din arhipelagul aflat în Oceanul Pacific. În această dimineaţă, la ora locală 11:20, Arcul lui Darwin, celebru la nivel mondial, s-a prăbuşit în faţa ochilor lor.
Persons: Darwin, Insulei Darwin, Insula Darwin, englez Charles Darwin, Ne Organizations: UNESCO Locations: Insulele Galapagos, Insulei, Insula, englez, Pacific, Ecuador, Galapagos
O formațiune faimoasă de piatră, denumită Arcul lui Darwin și aflată lângă Insulele Galapagos, s-a prăbușit, informează BBC, citat de digi24.ro. "A fost raportată prăbușirea Arcului lui Darwin, o punte naturală de piatră aflată la mai puțin de un kilometri de Insula Darwin din Galapagos", a comunicat ministerul. Formațiunea era denumită după biologul britanic Charles Darwin și considerată o locație importantă pentru scufundări. Insulele Galapagos, aflate la aproape 1.000 de kilometri de Ecuador, sunt incluse în Patrimoniul Mondial UNESCO și faimoase la nivel mondial pentru diversitatea de specii și plante. Turiștii din toată lumea vin în Insulele Galapagos pentru a vedea biodiversitatea care a inspirat teoria evoluției a lui Charles Darwin.
Persons: Darwin, Insula Darwin, britanic Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin Organizations: BBC, Insulele, UNESCO Locations: Insulele Galapagos, Ecuador, Insula, Galapagos, britanic, Arhipelagul
Formațiunea de piatră „Arcul lui Darwin” s-a prăbușit. Aceasta se afla lângă Insulele Galapagos, care au inspirat teoria evoluțieiO formațiune faimoasă de piatră, denumită Arcul lui Darwin și aflată lângă Insulele Galapagos, s-a prăbușit. „A fost raportată prăbușirea Arcului lui Darwin, o punte naturală de piatră aflată la mai puțin de un kilometri de Insula Darwin din Galapagos”, a comunicat ministerul, potrivit BBC. Formațiunea era denumită după biologul britanic Charles Darwin și considerată o locație importantă pentru scufundări. Turiștii din toată lumea vin în Insulele Galapagos pentru a vedea biodiversitatea care a inspirat teoria evoluției a lui Charles Darwin.
Persons: Darwin, Insula Darwin, britanic Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin Organizations: BBC, Insulele, UNESCO Locations: Insulele, Insulele Galapagos, Ecuador, Insula, Galapagos, britanic, Arhipelagul
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