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- Charles Darwin Foundation
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- UNESCO World Heritage Centre: Galapagos Islands
- World Wildlife Fund
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- "Adaptive Radiation." Bio-Medicine. http://www.bio-medicine.org/biology-definition/Adaptive_radiation/
- "Charles Darwin and the Galapagos Islands Fact Sheet." Galapagos Conservation Trust. http://www.gct.org/darwinfact.html
- "Conservation and Preservation of the Galapagos National Park." Galapagos Online. http://www.galapagosonline.com/Galapagos_Natural_History/Conservation/Conservation.html
- "Destination: Galapagos Islands." Scientific American Frontiers. PBS. 1990-2000. http://www.pbs.org/safarchive/galapagos.html
- "Ecuadorian plan to protect Galapagos Islands' ecosystems receives IDB loan for $10.4 million." Inter-American Development Bank. 2000. http://www.iadb.org/news/detail.cfm?language=English&id=779
- "Galapagos Islands." World Wildlife Fund. 2006. http://www.panda.org/about_our_earth/best_place_species/current_top_10/galapagos_islands.cfm
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