Birdwatch: Going to the Galápagos for the gulls

While most visitors prefer the finches, tropicbirds and blue-footed boobies, some are drawn to less glamorous species

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The Galápagos is a wildlife haven. But is that enough to protect the rare scalloped hammerhead shark?

The species is abundant within the protected archipelago but when they migrate outside the marine reserve to give birth they run the gauntlet of industrial fishing

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Floreana giant tortoise reintroduced to Galápagos island after almost 200 years

Subspecies driven to extinction by hungry whalers returns after ‘back breeding’ programme using partial descendants

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