Adriana Mesa Vera, who regularly blogs about life in Galapagos, recently reported on a 300 year old Ceiba tree, near Puerto Baquerizo Moreno. If the facts are correct, this tree…

Here's a 2 minute CNN piece on a recent success story - the survival of tortoise hatchlings on Pinta Island, for the first time in over a hundred years, now…

(from the Galapagos National Park press release - with help from Google Translate) . For the second consecutive year, endangered mangrove finches are successfully hatched in captivity.  The mangrove finch…

Ecuadoreans marched in the thousands yesterday, in several mainland cities, protesting what they believe is a growing centralization of power in the office of the president (Rafael Correa), reductions in…

CNH Tours began systematically surveying its returning “Active Galapagos” guests using an on-line survey tool in December 2014.   We are so happy with the results, we are posting them here. …

The director of the Galapagos National Park Service, Arturo Izurieta, with whom CNH Tours has had several positive exchanges, was informed by the Minister of the Environment that he would…

I have to be watchful in not posting too many self-congratulatory "news" items here - this is the second in just a matter of days - something I have avoided…

We've translated this (with some help from Google Translate) from the Spanish version emitted by the Park Service this past Saturday, 11 April: The Minister of Environment, Lorena Tapia, appointed…

Well, it looks as though the park directorship has once again reverted to being a political appointment post, and not a civil service job for which people have to compete…

A small thing for some, but a big thing for us.  We were pleased to note that Huffington Post, a well-known on-line media platform, cited CNH Tours in its report…