As a child I was fascinated by birds, so it was only a matter of time that I found a book in the library about Galapagos finches.

My uncle had a lot of birds in huge cages outdoors, and I loved to look at his finches… yet when I saw the ones from the book in the library, "I wanted more"…

Darwins finches

So imagine that finally in school in biology class my teacher started to talk about Galapagos. Me ready to see even more birds, our teachers showed us a picture of Darwin…

Charles Darwin the theory of evolution

So there I am: anticipating lots and lots of pictures or at least those scientific looking drawings like so:

Darwins Finchs : at least some interesting drawings…

Can you imagine how bored I felt: anticipating beautiful pictures of Galapagos wildlife and in stead getting old boring history pictures: who is Charles Darwin, the biography of Charles Darwin… especially we had to remember the name of the boat in which he made his travel to Galapagos… jeeeez…: what do I care?

That’s when I said: "if I was the teacher: I would go on a Galapagos vacation and make sure to bring some real pictures back to show…".

So for all the things I said when I was a kid, at least I kept this promise … Galapagos is a place "untouched" by humans: it shows how much more variety there could be in a place where there are no humans.

Charles Darwin the theory of evolution

Galapagos should tell us more about our future than about Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution and specialization.

• The less people like on Galapagos: the more diversity of wildlife.
• The more people: the less divers animals around ("only cats and dogs")

So the more people will lead to an earth with only a few species left… a much different prospect than Darwin’s evolution of the species in more diversity: we humans are just doing the opposite with our earth.

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