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Peter Liu captured this stunning image of a Pacific seahorse near Cousin Rock, one of the most famous dive sites in the Galapagos Islands. The Pacific seahorse can be found living near coral reefs along the coasts Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Peru, and the United States.
If there is one animal that has come to symbolize the Galapagos Islands, it is the giant tortoise. You’ll find its likeness in the logos of the Galapagos National Park, the Charles Darwin Foundation, and the Galapagos Conservancy.
In November, Collin Swan and his new bride embarked upon a dream honeymoon, a Galapagos cruise with Natural Habitat Adventures. They commemorated the voyage by putting together this charming and very professional video, which features a ton of really spectacular wildlife footage.
This photo of a veritable forest of Opuntia cacti (Opuntia echios), also known as the Galapagos prickly pear, was taken on the coast of Santa Cruz by Dallas Krentzel.
The year 2014 is now in its final hours.Traditionally, during these last, waning days, we look back on what kind of year we just had, what we accomplished and what we could have done better.
One of the reasons that the Galapagos Islands are at, or at least near, the top of many a wildlife lover’s travel bucket list is that the animals show little or no fear of humans. Galapagos sea lion pups are particularly gregarious and will often try to sidle up next to tourists relaxing on the beach.
Gertjie the rhino was three month’s old when she came to live at the Hoedspruit Endangered Species Centre in South Africa. Her mother had been brutally killed for her horn and Gertjie was found crying inconsolably by her side.
A new app called Serengeti Tracker will provide an interactive way for people around the world to follow the great migration of the Serengeti in real time on their smartphones and tablets.
This remarkable video is a little hard to watch at first, but as the title above suggests, it has a happy ending (for the elephant, at least). Somehow, a young elephant that was separated from his herd managed to survive the onslaught of 14 female lions.
It is with heavy hearts that we share the news that Suni, one of the last northern white rhinos in the world, was found dead in his boma (hut) on Friday at Ol Pejeta Conservancy, in Kenya’s Laikipia region.
The Galapagos Islands are justifiably renowned for the many strange and wondrous creatures that soar, slither and crawl here, and only here. Understandably, the archipelago’s endemic terrestial species are its most famous: giant tortoises, marine iguanas, Galapagos penguins, flightless cormorants, and the like. Yet there are plenty of equally fascinating, unique-to-the-Galapagos creatures just below the ocean’s surface.
Rachel Kramer is a Program Officer for Wildlife Conservation and TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network. Just before joining WWF she traveled through Bhutan with her friend and fellow photographer, Kristan Norvig, exploring the kingdom’s natural and cultural wonders and connecting with the family of a colleague in a remote eastern village.
