Flora and fauna on tropical islands

Flora and fauna

Nature is especially vulnerable on islands. Therefore their ecology has to be protected. This site leads to the Library of environmental resources, and is a good starting point when looking for issues on ecologically sound preservation of nature. Obviously, oceanic islands are rich in coastal and marine resources such as coral reefs.
This page is an introduction to many more links on these issues.
Because of their isolated location, many oceanic islands have special (so called 'endemic') birds and plants. Darwin noticed this on his sea voyage with the HMS Beagle through the Pacific, where he, amongst other beautifull spots, visited the Galapagos Islands. Most of us ar not so lucky to be able to visit this spot, so we will have to do with the the (electronic versions) of

such as 'The voyage of the Beagle' and 'The Origin of Species'. or with a cybervisit to 'virtual Galapagos'

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