Subject: Galapagos Conservation Trust e-News

From: "Galapagos Conservation Trust" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 21:16:03 +1300

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Dear Mr Stephens, 

In this edition: 

Galapagos news 
2006 Photographic competition 
Forthcoming GCT events 
Website survey results 
Galapagos cruise 
Galapagos news 

Tackling smelly sea lion problem - The iconic islands of the Galapagos are world famous for their flora and fauna. But just don't expect the locals to wax lyrical about the sea lions if you are ever fortunate to visit... 
The shadow of mass tourism over Galapagos - The principal economic activity of Galapagos is tourism, which started in the 1970s when the first island dwellers used their own fishing boats to take round visitors. Since then the number of visitors has increased and during 2005, the Galapagos National Park reported that 122,000 visitors had been to the archipelago... 
Possible new insect invasion - Since the end of December 2005, the Invertebrate Department of the Charles Darwin Foundation has been receiving reports of a small black insect in Puerto Ayora... 

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2006 Photographic competition 

Entries are now open for this year's photographic competition and we would love to see your Galapagos images. You can win the chance to have your photo appear in our annual Galapagos calendar, and the overall winner will also receive tickets to Galapagos Day in London. 

Visit www.gct.org/photo_c.html for details and send your entries in today! 

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Forthcoming GCT events 

Visit our website at www.gct.org/events2.html for details of the events we have planned for 2006, including a Galapagos Day to be held in Wales in March, a trip to the Scottish Seabirds Centre in Edinburgh, and our annual Galapagos Day event in London in conjunction with the BBC, which has been generously sponsored by Discovery Initiatives again this year. 

You can join Professor Janet Browne, Dr John van Wyhe, Dr Ken Collins and Dr Henry Nicholls for a panel discussion about the natural history and conservation challenges of the Galapagos Islands, on the 26th April at the British Library Conference Centre. Tickets are £6 (£4 concessionary) from the British Library Information desk or by phoning 0207 412 7222 (£1 of each ticket sold will be donated to GCT). 

DON'T MISS OUT
Buy your tickets now to Darwin's Dream at the Royal Albert Hall on the 20th March. This is a new music theatre project for children and adults about the history of the planet from the Big Bang to the present day, centring on the travels, ideas and dreams of the great scientist, Charles Darwin. For further information and details of how to purchase your tickets, visit www.gct.org/events2.html, or email [email-masked]. 

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Website survey results 

Thank you to everyone who completed the online survey of our website. We received lots of good ideas to help us improve our website and will be incorporating them in the next few weeks - so keep checking for new items! You can view the results by visiting http://www.gct.org/websurvey_2a.html. 

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Galapagos cruise 

Are you planning a trip to Galapagos this year? Would you like to travel onboard a traditional square rigger, as part of a small group of only 16 people? 

Select Latin America are organising an exclusive charter to Galapagos, including special guest lecturers, a photographic master class, and a "behind the scenes" visit accompanied by the Executive Director of GCT. 

For further information, visit www.gct.org/charter_1.html, or contact Select Latin America on +44 (0)20 7407 1478. 

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