Sharp plans to extend the Galapagos service to connected TVs and smartphones in the future.
Galapagos fishermen were lobbying the environment ministry and Congress within days of the decree.
Here are some tips to consider if you want to pursue your own Galapagos adventure.
She's been to Argentina, the Galapagos Islands and Thailand, and she recently visited Namibia.
Similarly, one glitch in one key ecosystem component of the Galapagos could do the same thing.
In addition, the 10.8-inch Sharp Galapagos tablet has arrived at the FCC from Asia, a large Linux-based e-reader.
But unlike island chains like Hawaii, the Galapagos still maintains 95 percent of its native plants and animals.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: Near the largest freshwater lake in the Galapagos, park ranger Gianni Arizmendi resentfully yanks out a root.
The Kents, for example, planned their Galapagos trip for a year and were talking about it before then.
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An isolated archipelago, the Galapagos are set in the Pacific Ocean more than 500 miles west of Ecuador .
GARCIA-NAVARRO: A giant Galapagos tortoise hisses as visitors get too close to it.
Hawaii, Oahu, Bermuda, the Azores, the Galapagos and Mauritius are natural nets sitting in the path of gyre currents.
There is a mystery here, and the more you think about it, the more implausible the Galapagos story seems.
The Committee also decided to remove the Galapagos Islands (Ecuador) from this List.
The idea for OceanElders was seeded during the TED Mission Blue Voyage to the Galapagos Islands in April 2010.
Three army officers who were his bodyguards claimed they had sailed with him on a yacht to the Galapagos Islands.
On the Galapagos Islands off the Pacific coast of South America, conservationists are waging a battle of man vs. goat.
George became a symbol of the Galapagos Islands after he was found on Pinta Island by biologist Joseph Vagvolgyi in 1971.
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People who want to visit the Galapagos Islands have to take approved tours, designed to protect the islands' fragile ecology.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: Galapagos is named after these reptiles, but their populations have been hurt in the wild by rats, pigs and goats.
None of this minimizes the importance of Darwin's Galapagos and Pampas observations.
At least three types of parasitic fly are thought to have been accidentally introduced to the Galapagos, the first having been found in 1997.
From rafting the Grand Canyon to sailing the Galapagos to trekking in the Himalayas, the world is filled with true once-in-a-lifetime adventures and destinations.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: Meaning they can reduce a forest to a lawn in a few years, leaving vulnerable animals like the Galapagos tortoise struggling to survive.
The World Heritage Committee also added four sites to the List of World Heritage in Danger, and removed the Galapagos Islands (Ecuador) from this List.
Today the Galapagos are a designated UNESCO Natural World Heritage Site.
"It's just a fantastically wonderful place, " said Herb Wilson, a biology professor at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, who has been to the Galapagos twice.
With their remote location, the Galapagos used to be more of a legend than a destination for most people -- but that's no longer the case.
The Austrian research, published in the latest issue of an ornithological journal, Ibis, sought some up-to-date data on the scale of the parasite problem facing native Galapagos birds.
Lake Malawi is a UNESCO World Heritage site and UNESCO says the lake's importance for studying the evolution of fish is comparable with finches in the Galapagos Islands.
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