Floreana Island has been negatively impacted by human activity since the early eighteen hundreds. Explorers, pirates, and first colonizers brought with them domestic animals, which later became a big problem for the native and endemic flora and fauna of this Island. For the last decade the Galapagos National Park has been restoring the island, and hopefully by 2025 we will have giant tortoises, mega prickly pear cacti, and hopefully mockingbirds, all of them endemic to this Island.
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- 22 Dec 2024
Floreana Island, 12/22/2024, National Geographic Islander II
- Aboard the National Geographic Islander II
- Galápagos
Walter Perez, Naturalist/Certified Photo Instructor
Walter was born in a very small town on the mainland of Ecuador. His first trip to the Galápagos was when he was 12 years old, visiting friends and aunt, who had moved to the islands. From the first moment he saw the Islands, he fell in love with the...
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