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Galapagos Islands

November 14, 2003Biologists were trying to exterminate nonnative frogs that have invaded the Galápagos Islands.
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Associated Press

January 30, 2001After a tanker ran aground, some 240,000 gallons of diesel fuel was spreading through the Galápagos Islands, poisoning the once pristine home of the flightless cormorant, the miniature Galápagos penguin, the waved albatross, and the masked booby. The tanker had been carrying fuel for tourist cruises. Fishermen were trying to skim fuel off the surface of the ocean with buckets.

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