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The text related to the cultural heritage 'Galápagos Islands' has mentioned 'Species' in the following places:
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| This island is one of the few that are home to the Galxc3xa1pagos penguin which is the only wild penguin species to live on the equator. | WIKI |
| It has its own species of lava lizard, mockingbird, and Galxc3xa1pagos tortoise. | WIKI |
| Punta Suarez has migrant, resident, and endemic wildlife, including brightly colored marine iguanas, Espaxc3xb1ola lava lizards, hood mockingbirds, swallow-tailed gulls, blue-footed boobies, Nazca boobies, red-billed tropicbirds, Galxc3xa1pagos hawks, three species of Darwin's finches, and the waved albatross. | WIKI |
| At Darwin Bay, frigatebirds and swallow-tailed gulls, the only nocturnal species of gull in the world, can be seen. | WIKI |
| Nine species of finches have been reported in this island. | WIKI |
| Santa Fe species of land iguanas are often seen, as well as lava lizards. | WIKI |
| Iguanas (land, marine and some hybrids of both species) are abundant, and large numbers of birds can be observed from the cliffs at the southern part of the island, including tropic birds and swallow-tailed gulls. | WIKI |
| The Galxc3xa1pagos tortoise or Galxc3xa1pagos giant tortoise (Chelonoidis nigra) is the largest living species of tortoise; this one is from the Island of Santa Cruz. | WIKI |
| The hunting of the tortoises was responsible for greatly diminishing, and in some cases eliminating, certain species. | WIKI |
| [35] Towards the end of the voyage, Darwin speculated that the distribution of the mockingbirds and the tortoises might "undermine the stability of Species". | WIKI |
| [36] When specimens of birds were analyzed on his return to England, it was found that many apparently different kinds of birds were species of finches, which were unique to islands. | WIKI |
| These facts were crucial in Darwin's development of his theory of natural selection explaining evolution, which was presented in On the Origin of Species. | WIKI |
| In 1959, the centenary year of Charles Darwin's publication of The Origin of Species, the Ecuadorian government declared 97.5% of the archipelago's land area a national park, excepting areas already colonised. | WIKI |
| During the early years, conservation programs, such as eradication of introduced species and protection of native species, were carried out by research station personnel. | WIKI |
| Noteworthy species include: | WIKI |
| Marine iguana, Amblyrhynchus cristatus, the only iguana feeding in the sea Galxc3xa1pagos tortoise (Galxc3xa1pagos giant tortoise), Chelonoidis nigra, known as galxc3xa1pago in Spanish, it gave the name to the islands Galxc3xa1pagos green turtle, Chelonia mydas agassisi, a subspecies of the green turtle Galxc3xa1pagos racer, Pseudalsophis biserialis, an endemic species of snake with two subspecies Sea cucumbers, the cause of environmental battles with fishermen over quotas of this expensive Asian delicacy Flightless cormorant, Phalacrocorax harrisi Great frigatebird and magnificent frigatebird Blue-footed booby, Sula nebouxii, popular among visitors for their large blue feet which they show off in courtship Galxc3xa1pagos penguin, Spheniscus mendiculus, the only living tropical penguin Waved albatross, Phoebastria irrorata, the only living tropical albatross Galxc3xa1pagos hawk, Buteo galapagoensis, the islands' main scavenger (at the top of the food chain) and "environmental police" Four endemic species of Galxc3xa1pagos mockingbirds, the first species Darwin noticed to vary from island to island Thirteen endemic species of tanagers, popularly called Darwin's finches. | WIKI |
| Among them is the sharp-beaked ground finch Geospiza difficilis septentrionalis which is sometimes called the "vampire finch" for its blood-sucking habits, and the tool-using woodpecker finch, Camarhynchus pallidus Galxc3xa1pagos sea lions, Zalophus wollebaeki, closely related to the California sea lion, but smaller Two endemic genera of cacti, each with a single species: Jasminocereus thouarsii, the candelabra cactus, and Brachycereus nesioticus, the lava cactus | WIKI |
| [50] Quick to reproduce and with no natural predators, these alien species decimated the habitats of native species. | WIKI |
| There are over 700 introduced plant species today. | WIKI |
| This difference is creating a major problem for the islands and the natural species that inhabit them. | WIKI |
| Many species were introduced to the Galxc3xa1pagos by pirates. | WIKI |
| Cattle and donkeys eat all the available vegetation and compete with native species for scarce water. | WIKI |
| Six species of small non-native vertebrates have established self-sufficient populations in Galxc3xa1pagos and may become invasive: Fowler's snouted tree frog Scinax quinquefasciatus, common house gecko Hemidactylus frenatus, mourning gecko Lepidodactylus lugubris, dwarf gecko Gonatodes caudiscutatus, Peters' leaf-toed gecko Phyllodactylus reissii, and smooth-billed ani Crotophaga ani. | WIKI |
| [58] The most pressing threat to the Marine Reserve comes from local, mainland and foreign fishing targeting marine life illegally within the Reserve,[59] such as sharks (hammerheads and other species) for their fins,[58] and the harvest of sea cucumbers out of season. | WIKI |
| Development threatens both land and sea species. | WIKI |
| Likewise, the Marine Reserve, situated at the confluence of 3 major eastern Pacific currents and influenced by climatic phenomena such as El Nixc3xb1o, has had major evolutionary consequences and provides important clues about species evolution under changing conditions. | UNESCO |
| Criterion x: The islands have relatively high species diversity for such young oceanic islands, and contain emblematic taxa such as giant tortoises and land iguanas, the most northerly species of penguin in the world, flightless cormorants as well as the historically important Darwinxe2x80x99s finches and Galapagos mockingbirds. | UNESCO |
| and many other genera have also radiated on the islands, part of a native flora including about 500 vascular plant species of which about 180 are endemic. | UNESCO |
| Examples of endemic and threatened species include 12 native terrestrial mammal species (11 endemic, with 10 threatened or extinct) and 36 reptile species (all endemic and most considered threatened or extinct), including the only marine iguana in the world. | UNESCO |
| Likewise the marine fauna has an unusually high level of diversity and endemism, with 2,909 marine species identified with 18.2% endemism. | UNESCO |
| High profile marine species include sharks, whale sharks, rays and cetaceans. | UNESCO |