<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/00e0d780-ea97-4e0e-a178-7ba2788b7394/C697717C-BED7-4F5F-BFC5-0E10CBCE33C8/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070414/sc_afp/ecuadorenvironment_070414084634" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070414/sc_afp/ecuadorenvironment_070414084634" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070414/sc_afp/ecuadorenvironment_070414084634"><P> QUITO (AFP) - Tourism, overpopulation and non-native species are threatening the ecosystem of the <SPAN class="yqlink"> <A title="Related information on Galapagos Islands" class="yqimgins" href="http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news/?p=Galapagos+Islands">Galapagos Islands</A></SPAN>, the archipelago which inspired British naturalist Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, experts say. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070414/sc_afp/ecuadorenvironment_070414084634"><P> In order to protect the <SPAN class="yqlink"> <A title="Related information on UNESCO" class="yqimgins" href="http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news/?p=UNESCO">UNESCO</A></SPAN> World Heritage site, Correa this week issued orders to restrict tourist traffic, overhead flights and residence permits on the isles 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) from Ecuador's coast.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070414/sc_afp/ecuadorenvironment_070414084634"><P> The 8,000 square kilometer (3,088 square mile) islands and 45,000 square kilometers (17,374 square miles) of surrounding waters are populated by giant turtles, sharks, Darwin finches, marine iguanas, sea lions, rare trees and insects.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070414/sc_afp/ecuadorenvironment_070414084634"><P> A major factor in the ecosystem's decline has been the introduction of dogs, cats, goats and donkeys -- species that were not on the island before.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070414/sc_afp/ecuadorenvironment_070414084634"> Over the past three years, UN workers</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070414/sc_afp/ecuadorenvironment_070414084634">to eliminate as many as 80,000 wild goats. 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