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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Galapagos report: A wrap-up on our freshwater discussions Biz leaders and scientists brainstorm solutions to the freshwater crisis	Grist	17 May 2007	Gristmill
Mary Pearl is the president of Wildlife Trust, cofounder of its Consortium for Conservation Medicine, and an adjunct research scientist at Columbia University. She recently returned from a boat trip through the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador with scientists, conservationists, and business leaders, intended to forge partnerships and develop solutions to the global freshwater crisis. This is the third and final dispatch from her journey. See also her first and second dispatches. ...
Topics: business, environmental movement, Galapagos Islands, oceans, water conflicts, water pollution (all these topics)

Galapagos report: An intro to water woes A second dispatch from the sea	Grist	24 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Mary Pearl is the president of Wildlife Trust, cofounder of its Consortium for Conservation Medicine, and an adjunct research scientist at Columbia University. This week, she's traveling in the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador with a boat full of scientists, conservationists, and business leaders to forge partnerships and develop solutions to the global freshwater crisis. This is the second of her dispatches from the journey. See her first dispatch here. Our first afternoon ...
Topics: business, environmental movement, Galapagos Islands, water conflicts, water pollution (all these topics)

Galapagos report: CEOs, scientists, and a very cool trip An expedition to see critters and talk freshwater	Grist	20 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Mary Pearl is the president of Wildlife Trust, cofounder of its Consortium for Conservation Medicine, and an adjunct research scientist at Columbia University. Over the next week, she'll be traveling in the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador with a boat full of scientists, conservationists, and business leaders to forge partnerships and develop solutions to the global freshwater crisis. This is the first of her dispatches from the journey. Claudio Padua and I hatched a crazy idea ...
Topics: business, environmental movement, Galapagos Islands, water conflicts, water pollution (all these topics)

Bycatcher in the Eye Iconic Galapagos Islands threatened by longline fishing, other stuff		31 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
Bycatcher in the Eye Iconic Galapagos Islands threatened by longline fishing, other stuff The Galapagos Islands are iconic for biologists and conservationists, home to a dizzying array of rare and endangered species that inspired Charles Darwin's seminal work on evolution. Today, the entire marine ecosystem surrounding the islands may be in jeopardy. The militant fishing unions that hold sway over the adminis ...
Topics: Ecuador, Galapagos Islands, marine life, news (all these topics)

Darwin's Flinches		08 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Darwin's Flinches Just weeks after scientists found that an apparently harmless oil spill in the Galapagos Islands in January 2001 in fact led to a massive iguana die-off, another spill has tainted the pristine archipelago. Late last week, a small barge spilled close to 2,000 gallons of diesel near the island of Puerto Villamil, home to turtles, iguanas, and sea lions. The spill was small ...
Topics: Ecuador, energy, Galapagos Islands, marine life, renewable energy (all these topics)

Iguana Be Alone!		06 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
Iguana Be Alone! Eighteen months ago, a grounded tanker spilled 150,000 gallons of diesel and bunker fuel into the waters around the famed Galapagos Islands. Luckily, shifting winds sent most of the fuel out to sea rather than into shore, so sea lion and bird deaths numbered in the dozens rather than the hundreds. At the time, biologists and conservationists breathed a sigh of relief, believin ...
Topics: Galapagos Islands, health, toxics, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics)

Changing Their Tuna		07 May 2002	Daily Grist
Changing Their Tuna Ecuador unveiled a plan yesterday that could help protect marine and bird species native to the Galapagos Islands, whose unique wildlife inspired Charles Darwin to formulate his theory of natural selection. At present, Galapagos fishers are legally allowed to ply their trade in the waters around the archipelago, to the dismay of conservationists. Now the government plans to pilot a program that would encou ...
Topics: Galapagos Islands, marine life (all these topics)

You Can't Hide Your Lion Eyes		19 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
You Can't Hide Your Lion Eyes At least 35 sea lions were found dead and mutilated in Ecuador's Galapagos Islands on Sunday. Acting on an anonymous tip, officials of the Galapagos National Park discovered the bodies washed up on the beach, with their teeth and genitalia removed. Authorities suspect that the sea lions were killed to sell the body parts as aphrodisiacs in Asia. Sea lions have no natural predators and g ...
Topics: Ecuador, Galapagos Islands, marine life (all these topics)

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