I am frantically preparing for my trip to China. I leave on Friday. I am having to put to bed the Spring/Summer issue of Galapagos News, pen the finishing touches to a chapter I am contributing to an academic volume
The cunning of conservation genetics
Over in Galapagos, scientists have identified nine giant tortoises in captivity that appear to be descended from the long-extinct Floreana tortoise, a variety assumed to have disappeared more than 150 years ago. Charles Darwin visited Floreana in 1835 though the
Failed fertilization for Lonesome George
The Galapagos National Park has announced that a clutch of eggs laid in Lonesome George’s enclosure 120 days ago is not fertile. This photograph supplied by the Park is the rather unsightly and pretty convincing evidence. George, you’ll remember, is