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Medium shot of a blue-footed booby perched on an outcrop of volcanic rock2. Wide shot of the blue-footed booby standing under a cactus with a bay in the background3. Close shot of the blue-footed booby's...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eGalapagos, January 28, 2009\u003cbr/\u003e1. Medium shot of a blue-footed booby perched on an outcrop of volcanic rock\u003cbr/\u003e2. Wide shot of the blue-footed booby standing under a cactus with a bay in the background\u003cbr/\u003e3. Close shot of the blue-footed booby's feet\u003cbr/\u003e4. Medium shot of a marine iguana displaying a warning signal to guard his territory\u003cbr/\u003e5. Wide panning shot of a marine iguana swimming along a rocky shore\u003cbr/\u003e6. Medium shot of two male marine iguanas fighting\u003cbr/\u003e7. Wide shot of tourists walking through tortoise pen with sign in foreground warning visitors not to touch the animals\u003cbr/\u003e8. Medium shot of a tourist taking a photo of a tortoise\u003cbr/\u003e9. Medium shot of a giant tortoise\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Edwin Naula, Director of Tourism for the Galapagos National Park:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The problems of the archipelago are not only the side of the protected areas. Problems are also born in the areas where humans live. That's where all the business is, that's where all the fuel is consumed, that's where the contamination is. That's where we have social needs: education, health -- all the things that sustain the community, which the state has to invest in as well. If we don't have a good quality of life among the people who live here, then we can't ask them to conserve their environment well. The two things have to have a balance, and they have to grow at the same time. I think maybe at one point in time we worked a lot on preservation but we neglected the human part of the archipelago.\"\u003cbr/\u003e11. Zoom out shot of a main street in the town of Puerto Ayora as local residents walk past shops and hotels\u003cbr/\u003e12. Wide shot of local residents biking down the street in Puerto Ayora\u003cbr/\u003e13. Wide shot of a locally-run dive shop on the main street of Puerto Ayora\u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jorge Torres, Governor of Galapagos:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We have a model of tourism that is not really facilitating (helping) things in the Galapagos Islands. I talking about a floating hotel of tourists (cruise ships / yachts) that is taking over the Galapagos and dominating the tourism since the beginning. But this is the time to change that and the idea our President and government is to help communities to develop eco-tourism, not massive but tourism to make easy living in the Galapagos islands for the islanders. \" \u003cbr/\u003e15. Wide shot of large cruising yachts anchored in the harbour of Puerto Ayora\u003cbr/\u003e16. Wide shot of a boat taxi and a smaller vessel ferry travel in and out of the harbour of Puerto Ayora\u003cbr/\u003e17. Wide shot of tourists getting into a boat for a day trip\u003cbr/\u003e18. Medium shot of the same\u003cbr/\u003e19. Wide panning shot of tourists pulling away in a small boat for a day trip\u003cbr/\u003e20. Wide shot of crabs clinging to the wall of one of the docks\u003cbr/\u003e21. Medium shot of the same\u003cbr/\u003e22. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Edwin Naula, Director of Tourism for the National Park of Galapagos:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The problem starts in the places where people live, where the restaurants and the hotels and the services that the community offers -- tourists can come and use these services and stay in a hotel. And they can take trips to visitor sites that can support a larger number of visitors, because the fragility of these sites is much lower than those that are on the uninhabited islands. Those sites can have lots of tourists, and its these kinds of tourists that are increasing every year.\"\u003cbr/\u003e23. Close shot of a yellow finch resting on the stalk of a plant\u003cbr/\u003e24. Close shot of a grey finch resting on the stalk of a plant\u003cbr/\u003e25. Wide panning shot of giant tortoises resting in a pond on an organic farm\u003cbr/\u003e26. Medium shot of a giant tortoise moving its head around\u003cbr/\u003e27. Close shot of a tortoise with its head barely sticking out of the mud\u003cbr/\u003e28. Medium shot of a giant tortoise eating grass\u003cbr/\u003e29. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mattias Wolff, Director of Marine and Coastal Sciences for the Charles Darwin Foundation:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I think the affect the impact the tourist has, the direct impact on most wildlife is as yet very very low, fortunately. I am talking in general terms not only for the marine reserve, but also for the terrestrial park. This is one reason why the large diversity is still maintained, we think it is more than 95% of the original biodiversity that is still maintained. \u003cbr/\u003eThe problem are the secondary affects each tourist coming is bringing potentially invasive species in his suitcase, insects, fire ants, fruit flies ...whatever. And this has been very clearly shown in the studies that tourist increase curve is absolutely parallel to the tourist increase of curve of invasive species. \" \u003cbr/\u003e30. Wide zooming out shot of a cruise ship getting ready to unload passengers to go ashore in Puerto Ayora \u003cbr/\u003e31. Medium shot of foreign tourists applying sunscreen to each other while on the cruise ship\u003cbr/\u003e32. Medium shot of tourists getting into a raft that will ferry them to the dock\u003cbr/\u003e33. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ian Caulings, Canadian tourist:\u003cbr/\u003e\" I think everyone in our group is pretty conscientious of the environment we are in and that is what brought us here and we have to be careful to leave the place as we found it.\" \u003cbr/\u003e34. Medium shot of a cruise ship anchored in the bay\u003cbr/\u003e35. Medium shot of a blue-footed booby scratching its head with its foot\u003cbr/\u003eNext month the scientific community will celebrate the achievements of Charles Darwin. \u003cbr/\u003eFebruary 12 is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin and this year also sees the 150th anniversary of the publication of his work on evolution called 'On The Origin of Species'. \u003cbr/\u003eDarwin's work changed the way we think about the world we live in and the development of all living organisms including ourselves. \u003cbr/\u003eHis theories were inspired by his observations of biodiversity on the Galapagos Islands. \u003cbr/\u003eFrom blue footed boobies to swimming iguanas and giant tortoises, the wildlife of the Galapagos Islands are iconic symbols of biodiversity. \u003cbr/\u003eIt was more than 175 years ago that Darwin first came to the Galapagos Islands.\u003cbr/\u003eDarwin's visit to the islands and the observations he made here on the diversity between species, mostly famously the different bills of the archipelago's finches helped inspire his theory of evolution. \u003cbr/\u003eHere the wildlife often seems unaffected by the presence of humans. \u003cbr/\u003eIn their pens in the National Park, ancient Espanola tortoises lumber past visitors without the slightest hint of urgency. \u003cbr/\u003eThe chance to watch and mingle with some of the world's most remarkable and rare animals inspired over a hundred fifty thousand visitors to travel to this remote corner of the world last year. \u003cbr/\u003eEdwin Naula is the Director of Tourism for the Galapagos National Park. \u003cbr/\u003eHe says that it is difficult to balance the needs of the archipelago's unique animals and those of the visitors and residents. \u003cbr/\u003eOfficial figures report an annual growth rate in number of tourists by 14% in the past few years.\u003cbr/\u003eIn an effort to protect the islands from the damaging effects of tourism the Ecuadorian government passed the Special Law of Galapagos in 1998 to regulate the activities of tourism, fishing and other industries. \u003cbr/\u003eHowever this means that only large tourism companies who can afford to comply with the strict laws are granted a licence to operate, meaning that local people do not benefit from the money that tourism brings in. \u003cbr/\u003eLanguage is also an issue as many locals also speak only Spanish, whereas 62% of the visitors to the archipelago last year came from the United States or European countries not including Spain. \u003cbr/\u003eThe government, under pressure from local residents, has been promising to issue new tourist licenses for locals for several years. \u003cbr/\u003eJorge Torres, the governor of Galapagos and a life-long resident, says he wants to build more opportunities for the islanders.  \u003cbr/\u003eHe says that the popularity of small cruise ships which accommodate, feed and transport tourists around the various islands in all-inclusive packages, means that tourists are unlikely to spend money ashore in the small towns on the four inhabited islands.  \u003cbr/\u003eTorres says the government is determined to make tourism more profitable for local people. \u003cbr/\u003eAccording to the National Institute of the Galapagos in 2006, hotels on the islands, which are owned almost entirely by locals, brought in only 10% of the revenues of the cruise ships, which are owned in large part by foreign companies. \u003cbr/\u003eAnother problem with local tourism growth is that it has been largely unregulated. \u003cbr/\u003eThe strict rules governing the way that cruise ships operate in the Marine Reserve do not apply to hotels on land. \u003cbr/\u003eThese means that environmentalists are concerned about the booming rate of growth of local businesses as they made damage the local eco-systems. \u003cbr/\u003eMatthias Wolff, Director of Marine and Coastal Sciences for the Charles Darwin Foundation, says there is a direct correlation between the number 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