Four larger islands – Santa Cruz, Isabela, San Cristóbal and Floreana – boast towns with shops, restaurants and hotels, making them great jumping-off points for day trips to sights like ...

The Galápagos rail (Laterallus spilonota), a small, elusive bird once believed extinct on Floreana Island, has been spotted ...

The Galápagos Rail, considered a near-endangered species, has returned to its native Floreana Island after conservationists removed wild cat and rat populations that had driven the population out ...

The same was true for the Galápagos rail, a shy bird species seen on Floreana Island by Charles Darwin in 1835 and then never again – that is, until now. The Galápagos Rail (Laterallus ...

Be sure to book your flights to the same island you'll be based on, or where your boat departs and returns. Jordan Harvey's Luxury 13-day Itinerary in Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands The first ...

The Galápagos Conservancy and the National Park Directorate are also working together to reintroduce the giant tortoise on another island. The native tortoise has been extinct on Floreana Island ...

On the island of Floreana in the Galápagos Islands, 13 species have already become extinct locally. A Floreana mockingbird. Important actions are being taken by environmental charities to look ...

The year was 1835, and during his groundbreaking five-week visit, Darwin recorded the presence of a small bird on the island of Floreana. It was described and named the Galápagos rail.

But the island of Floreana operates a unique stampless system of sending mail from one of the world’s most diverse, uninhabited areas. Long before ecotourists annexed the remote islands off ...