Over the course of about seven years, they eliminate over 250 thousand goats. They got to aleaston isabella in mid two thousand six this kind of eradication program was far beyond anything that anyone had ever done anywhere in the world. And did it work? Yes. The results of this were absolutely impressive. You had plants reemerging. You had trees growing back,. And tortoises, they basically got their home back. This is the real thing, tortoises walking around gravely. So they did it. They got all the goats. Not all the goat. I would just, i would have shot them first, just out of sympathy for them, exactly.
As our co-Hosts Lulu Miller and Latif Nasser are out this week, we are re-sharing the perfect episode to start the summer season!
This one, which first aired in 2014, tells the strange story of a small group of islands that keeps us wondering: will our most sacred natural landscapes inevitably get swallowed up by humans? How far are we willing to go to stop that from happening?
This hour is about the Galápagos archipelago, which inspired Darwin’s theory of evolution and natural selection. Nearly 200 years later, the Galápagos are undergoing rapid changes that continue to pose — and perhaps answer — critical questions about the fragility and resilience of life on Earth.
Episode Credits:Reported and produced by Tim Howard.
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