She's been to Argentina, the Galapagos Islands and Thailand, and she recently visited Namibia.
Make no mistake, there is a war taking place on the Galapagos Islands.
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.
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.
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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Bennett has logged time with Reinhard in the mountains of Greece and Peru, and has traveled to the Galapagos Islands to help evolutionary theorist Frank Sulloway record ecological changes there.
Tolkein's "Lord of the Rings" trilogy -- has so far stopped at Miami, the Galapagos Islands and Cancun, in Mexico -- the latter during the United Nations World Climate Conference.
That's exactly what Ann and Tom Kent did when they took their kids and grandkids to the Galapagos Islands last Christmas to celebrate their 50th anniversary, a trip arranged by Thomson Family Adventures.
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Once one of the country's worst-polluted cities (because of metals manufacturing), it recently got mentioned by CBS television as being an eco-friendly destination, in the same breath as the Galapagos Islands and Burlington, Vt.
The conventional wisdom is that the Japanese have been stymied by something called the Galapagos Syndrome: like the strange animals and plants that Darwin encountered in the Galapagos Islands, Japanese cellphones have evolved separately.
Just as the Galapagos Islands is a unique biological ecosystem evolved in the absence of continental species, gongkai is a unique innovation ecosystem evolved with little western influence, thanks to political, language, and cultural isolation.
Though her chapter on the Galapagos islands deserves praise for bringing Darwin to life in deceptively simple language, it contains no mention of the row among fishing interests, travel promoters and conservationists that is now engulfing the islands.
In April, as part of the TED Mission Blue Voyage in the Galapagos Islands, we launched the Mission Blue campaign, an effort to garner public support to call on governments to establish a global network of Marine Protected Areas.
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The Endeavor, which is run as part of a partnership between two adventure tour companies, Lindblad Expeditions and National Geographic Expeditions, is one of the many vessels that house and ferry the nearly 180, 000 visitors that come to the Galapagos Islands each year.
In a novel initiative that may help to secure the creatures' future, 11 turtles are currently being satellite tracked on their 2, 000-kilometer (1, 200-mile) annual migration from the beaches of Central America to their traditional feeding areas around the Galapagos Islands off the coast of the South America.
The Galapagos -- 19 islands that lie 600 miles west of Ecuador in the Pacific Ocean -- are home to species of animals found nowhere else on Earth.
The giant tortoises of the Galapagos helped Charles Darwin formulate his theory of evolution after he visited the islands in the 1830s, on his five year voyage aboard HMS Beagle.
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