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	<title>IGTOA News - Galapagos Islands</title>
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	<description>News, Action Alerts and Email Newsletters about The Galapagos Island - from IGTOA.org</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:23:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>IUCN Criticizes World Heritage Committee Decision</title>
		<link>http://www.igtoa.org/news/2010/07/30/iucn-criticizes-world-heritage-committee-decision/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:23:07 +0000</pubDate>
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The UNESCO World Heritage Committee voted on Wednesday to remove the Galapagos Islands from its World Heritage in Danger List.  But the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) criticized the decision, saying there was &#8220;still work to be done&#8221;.
 
&#8220;The situation in the Galapagos [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Galapagos taken of World Heritage in Danger List</title>
		<link>http://www.igtoa.org/news/2010/07/29/galapagos-taken-of-world-heritage-in-danger-list/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:19:58 +0000</pubDate>
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During its annual meeting in Brazil, the UNESCO World Heritage Committee voted today to remove the Galapagos from its World Heritage in Danger List. The Galapagos Islands was placed on the list at the 2007 WHC meeting.
 
The proposal to remove the Galapagos from the list [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Galapagos Tourism Report</title>
		<link>http://www.igtoa.org/news/2010/07/28/galapagos-tourism-report/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:09:01 +0000</pubDate>
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Tourism is the driving force behind the unprecedented change in the Galapagos during the last decade. All experts agree, it&#8217;s expanding at an unsustainable rate. The scientific and conservation communities say they can&#8217;t keep up.
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Tourism Growth and Impacts
 
Foreign tourist arrivals were down by 11% in 2009 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IGTOA Galapagos Update</title>
		<link>http://www.igtoa.org/news/2010/07/19/igtoa-galapagos-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:03:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigtoad</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the first of two articles on issues facing the Galapagos Islands.  These appeared recently in our annual report to members.
In 2007 UNESCO  moved the Galapagos Islands to its World Heritage in Danger List. It cited invasive species,  human migration and settlement, uncontrolled tourism growth, and the failure of governmental institutions to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More on Galapagos boat sinking</title>
		<link>http://www.igtoa.org/news/2010/07/06/more-on-galapagos-boat-sinking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:10:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ORIGINAL SOURCE: EL COMERCIO
A Danish tourist of 61 years passed away, after the accident suffered  by the Tourist boat M/Y Rumba offshore from Port Villamil (Isabela Island) in  the Galapagos Islands. The mishap occurred last night (july 2nd 2010),  around the 21h00 (22h00 mainland Ecuador time [GMT-5]) and this afternoon, around  [...]]]></description>
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