The coronavirus has hit Ecuador’s idyllic Galapagos Islands, which once helped Charles Darwin refine his theory of evolution and natural selection.
On Sept. 24, the park pulled in $1,240 from tourist fees at the islands’ two airports — just 4% of last year’s collection for the same day, said NormanNoralma Cabrera and her husband, William, are farmers in the hills outside Puerto Ayora. Without tourism driving the economy, they’ve started giving food away.
Proof of a negative PCR coronavirus test, taken within 96 hours of arrival in the Galapagos, is required for entry. That’s more stringent than the requirement to get into Ecuador, which requires a PCR coronavirus test to be taken within 10 days of arrival.Seemingly everyone in the now-quiet Puerto Ayora wears a mask, and all businesses require patrons to douse their hands and shoe soles in alcohol before entry.
Still, there’s the sense here that the pandemic may have changed the tourist economy in the islands forever — and in some respects, Wray said, that may be for the better.
But Joe Biden says the Chinese are not a threat. ?
Who captioned the photos? 'faces threats from . . . climate change?' Not a word in the article about [man-made], or even naturally occurring CC. LAT's just throwing junk around? The Galapagos apparently survived the great warm up and 400 feet of SLR, only yesterday
The Galapagos Islands serve as an essential nursery for sea life in the Pacific, now threatened by overfishing in surrounding waters. Read our report: susrust
The US don't own the international water around the Galappagos, so shut your face, you trouble making Americans.
Who captioned the photos? 'faces threats from industrial fishing, climate change' Not a word in the article about [man-made], or even naturally occurring CC. LAT's just throwing junk around? The Galapagos apparently survived the great warm up and 400 feet of SLR, only yesterday
The fucking Chinese. Causing ecological devastation worldwide
How will Biden and China work together to shut this type of reporting down if Biden is elected? Why would you endorse someone as corrupt as that?
wow