As this month is Darwns 200th Anniversary and some of it started for him in the Galapagos I thought this article appropriate for us managing natural systems under threat.
Galapagos in peril
If Charles Darwin could revisit the Galapagos Archipelago on his 200th birthday this Thursday, he would find some of the scattered volcanic islands hearteningly untouched but others tragically damaged since he first set foot there on Sept. 15, 1835.
'Bigger than Einstein'
Thursday, Feb. 12 marks the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth and the 150th year since the publication of his world-altering On the Origin of Species. Whether it's in his native town of Shrewsbury in England or the exotic Galapagos Islands, where he found the inspiration for his theory of evolution, Darwin is still a topic of discussion.
Darwin, who was born on Feb. 12, 1809, proposed one of the fundamental ideas of modern biology — natural selection — after his visit to the South American archipelago 1,000 kilometres off the coast of Ecuador aboard the HMS Beagle.
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http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/02/10/f-tech-galapagos.html
