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Galapagos Islands are transformed http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1259946809
The Galapagos archipelago has already been transformed by global climate changes and human activity, a report has concluded.
A series of events, including the 1982 El Nino, overfishing and the appearance of urchins that destroy coral, has altered the islands' marine ecosystems.
At least 45 Galapagos species have now disappeared or are facing extinction.
That suggests future climate change driven by human activity will have an major impact on the islands' wildlife.... All live on the Galapagos, and most are found nowhere else.
These 45 species include five mammals, six birds, five reptiles, six fishes, one echinoderm, seven corals, six brown algae and nine red algae.
Among those is the coastal-living Mangrove finch, a species once studied by Charles Darwin.
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