Isabela and Fernandina Islands
Still active volcanoes, located in the western most realm of the Galápagos Islands.
Land tortoises and both land and marine iguanas made a home of these islands.
After the discovery of the Galápagos Islands, certain tortoise races became extinct.
No big land mammals had successfully arrived to the islands beforehand.
During the last couple of hundreds of years many exotic species were introduced.
Some of them became feral predators and some others reduced some islands into deserts.
Opportunistic in behavior, these exotic species started to compete for food.
Few remote islands remained untouched, because of the fragility of the terrain.
Fauna of the Galápagos is unique by all means.
Ignoring our presence, all these Galápagos creatures continue their behavior.
Reptiles once abundant now appear rarer compared with descriptions in the past.
Eden for marine birds still they remain, so far…
Still active volcanoes, located in the western most realm of the Galápagos Islands.
Land tortoises and both land and marine iguanas made a home of these islands.
After the discovery of the Galápagos Islands, certain tortoise races became extinct.
No big land mammals had successfully arrived to the islands beforehand.
During the last couple of hundreds of years many exotic species were introduced.
Some of them became feral predators and some others reduced some islands into deserts.
Opportunistic in behavior, these exotic species started to compete for food.
Few remote islands remained untouched, because of the fragility of the terrain.
Fauna of the Galápagos is unique by all means.
Ignoring our presence, all these Galápagos creatures continue their behavior.
Reptiles once abundant now appear rarer compared with descriptions in the past.
Eden for marine birds still they remain, so far…
