as A bus driver last Friday with a fine of only 10,000 euros for the night of the endangered giant tortoise in the Galapagos islands, report it to local authorities.
the accident on the 21st of november, the shell of the vrouwtjesschildpad damage. The animal would still be alive.
The driver steered a bus with the tourists. After the accident, were, according to local media, the so-called “rapid response teams” of the vets in action.
the Managers of the park have announced on Friday that the fine will be handing out the starts from the protected giant tortoise, a subspecies of Chelonoidis porteri, which is only on Santa Cruz island and is listed.
The penalty is in accordance with the park managers, the sixteen monthly salary for a person who is for the minimum wage receives it.
the Islands are threatened by tourism,
the Galapagos is home To a unique diversity of plant and animal species. The natural beauty of the island will be suffering for quite some time among the a large number of tourists.
every year, the Galapagos is home to more than 160 000 visitors, the World wide Fund for Nature (WWF). The toeristenschepen are also a lot of invasive species, which is the local diversity of flora and fauna at risk.
the Galapagos is famous for the theory of evolution < / p> The islands became world-famous with the publication of Charles Darwin’s book, On the origin of species in 1859, in which he presents his theory of evolution has set forth. Even today, the Islands are still of great interest to the research community.
Darwin traveled to in 1835, along with the Galapagos islands on the HMS Beagle. The subtle differences between the species on the island, he may be the mechanism of evolution to understand.
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