The Galapagos Islands to remove from World Crisis Heritage List by Ecuador Government's efforts

ByStellas mom

The Galapagos Islands famous for the story of Darwin's theory of evolution. It is an interesting island that there are many inherent species that have evolved independently from isolation from the continent, and there are subspecies for each island. In 1978 I got a World Natural Heritage Register but many problems were raised by the tourism landscape and it was put into the list of "Crisis Heritage" in 2007.

However, as the Ecuador government launched measures to protect the Galapagos one after another, it seems that the Galapagos Islands have been excluded from the "Crisis Heritage" list safely. In Japan it is completely different from the world, meaning to deride domestic mobile phones that have evolved their own "Galapagos Keitai (abbreviation: Garakey)Although the word is born, what kind of efforts have been done to protect the Galapagos Islands which should be said to be "main head owner"?

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UNESCO World Heritage Center - List of World Heritage in Danger: World Heritage Committee inscribes the Tombs of Buganda Kings (Uganda) and removes Galapagos Islands (Ecuador)

Galapagos Islands are taken off the Unesco endangered list | Environment | guardian.co.uk

The World Heritage Committee of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) met and deleted the Galapagos Islands in Ecuador from the list of 'World Heritage in Crisis' list.

The Galapagos Islands is an island with a single ecological system that is expressed as "a living museum, a showcase of evolution", the biologist Darwin was supposed to get the idea of ​​"evolution theory" I am visiting. In 1978World Heritage Registration StandardsOut of

(7)Including the best natural phenomenon or region with outstanding natural beauty and aesthetic importance.
(8)It is a remarkable sample showing the major stages in the history of the earth. This includes biological records, important geological progress processes in the development of terrain, important topographical features, natural geographical characteristics, and so on.
(9)It is a remarkable sample showing important progressing ecological and biological processes in the evolution and development of land, freshwater, coastal and marine ecosystems and animal and plant communities.
(Ten)Containing the most important and meaningful natural habitat for inherent conservation of biodiversity. This includes habitats such as habitats of extinct fear with excellent universal value from a scientific or conservation point of view.

, It was registered as the World Heritage (Natural Heritage) No. 1 issue.

However, the environment deteriorated due to the increase of tourists, the population increase due to tourism, the invasion of alien organisms due to an increase in traffic and poaching, and in June 2007, it was designated as a crisis heritage.

In response, the Ecuadorian governmentGalapagos Islands marine environmental conservation plan projectWe started using wind power and solar power to eliminate fossil fuels from the island and restricted migration etc. This effort was evaluated and it was removed from the crisis inheritance list.

Meanwhile, at the same meeting that the Galapagos Islands were removed from the list, Uganda's burning down the palace in MarchThe tomb of the ancient King of Buganda of Kasbi"Entered the crisis heritage list,All 34 World Heritage Sites are in dangerThe situation is continuing.