Magnum Photos
Photographers 
Photographers 
Decades 
Decades 
Miscellaneous 
Miscellaneous 
Orientation 
Orientation 
Category 
Category 
Material 
Material 
Level 
Level 

Distro - Galapagos Islands. 1997 

Stuart Franklin 

This story examines the human impact on the Galapagos Islands. Charles Darwin, in the Voyage of the Beagle (1839), wrote: 'The natural histroy of this (Galapagos) archipelago is very remarkable: it seems to be a little world within itself'. Recent evidence challenges this assumption. Today, closely linked to the world of tourism and resource exploitation, its survival as a centre of biological diversity is questionable. Mostly it has become a zoo owned by the international scientific community and exploited by the Ecuadorian entrepreneurs.

The Galapagos archipelago lies 972 kilometres off the... 

Stuart Franklin 1997

GALAPAGOS ISLANDS. Puerto Ayora. Fishing and tourist boats in... 

Stuart Franklin 1997

GALAPAGOS. Marine Iguanas threatened by human development. 1999.... 

Stuart Franklin 1997

GALAPAGOS. Two of the 15 000 remaining Galapagos tortoises. 1999.... 

Stuart Franklin 1997

GALAPAGOS. Santa Cruz. Paved road under construction. 

Stuart Franklin 1997

GALAPAGOS. Rare Galapagos hybrid finch, part mangrove, part ground... 

Stuart Franklin 1997

GALAPAGOS. Baltra. Tourists arriving in Baltra. 1999. 

Stuart Franklin 1997

GALAPAGOS. Tourist snorkelling with sea lion. 1999. 

Stuart Franklin 1997

GALAPAGOS.Fernandina. Penguins in the cold waters around Fernandina... 

Stuart Franklin 1997

GALAPAGOS. Vermilion flycatcher. 1999. 

Stuart Franklin 1997

GALAPAGOS. Biologists examining cadaver of sea lion. 1999. 

Stuart Franklin 1997

GALAPAGOS. Isabela. Dying tree ferns fenced in for protection.... 

Stuart Franklin 1997

GALAPAGOS. Captive land iguana. 1999. 

Stuart Franklin 1997

GALAPAGOS.Caamano. Marine iguanas relying on the sun to help... 

Stuart Franklin 1997

ECUADOR. Guayaquil. Loading cargo ship. 1999. 

Stuart Franklin 1997

ECUADOR. Santa Rosa. Merchants trolling for deals on fins from... 

Stuart Franklin 1997

GALAPAGOS. Young fisherman on Pelican Bay, near Puerto Ayora.... 

Stuart Franklin 1997

GALAPAGOS. San Cristobal. Troop of scouts pledging to protect... 

Stuart Franklin 1997

GALAPAGOS. Puerto Ayora. A new year's tradition. Revelers in... 

Stuart Franklin 1997

ECUADOR. Galapagos Islands. The swallow-tailed gull, the world's... 

Stuart Franklin 1997

GALAPAGOS. Puerto Egas. Yellow crowned Night Heron on a rock.... 

Stuart Franklin 1997

GALAPAGOS. Puerto Egas. A Scottish tour group take an illegal... 

Stuart Franklin 1997

GALAPAGOS. North Seymore Island. Mating sea turtles on the beach.... 

Stuart Franklin 1997

GALAPAGOS. Bartolome Island. Visitors are plentiful with several... 

Stuart Franklin 1997

GALAPAGOS. Caamano Island. Marine iguanas have moved in order... 

Stuart Franklin 1997

GALAPAGOS. Punta Estrada, Puerto Ayora. Locals demonstrate to... 

Stuart Franklin 1997

GALAPAGOS. Punta Nunez. El Nino has effected the lives of the... 

Stuart Franklin 1997

GALAPAGOS. Santa Cruz. Pictures of the Scalesia forest zone near... 

Stuart Franklin 1997

GALAPAGOS. Santiago Island. Journey hunt feral pigs and goats... 

Stuart Franklin 1997

ECUADOR. Santa Rosa, Guyas. Santa Rosa is the largest fishing... 

Stuart Franklin 1997

ECUADOR. Santa Rosa, Guyas. Hammerhead, Toya and reef sharks... 

Stuart Franklin 1997

GALAPAGOS. Plazas. Land iguanas feed on Opuntia cactus.

Stuart Franklin 1997

ECUADOR. Galapagos Islands. Santiago. Photographing marine iguanas... 

Stuart Franklin 1997

GALAPAGOS. Genovesa. Masked Boobies one of the inhabitants of... 

Stuart Franklin 1997

GALAPAGOS. Isabela. The largest surviving population of land... 

Stuart Franklin 1997

GALAPAGOS. Cabo Douglas. Endemic Galapagos penguins on the rocks... 

Stuart Franklin 1997

GALAPAGOS. Isabela. Land turtles inhabit this area. Their food... 

Stuart Franklin 1997

GALAPAGOS. Villamil.Armado Lapo(35)has turned volcanic scrub... 

Stuart Franklin 1997

GALAPAGOS. Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz. Francis Nicolaides, Victor... 

Stuart Franklin 1997

GALAPAGOS. San Christobal. 1999. 

Stuart Franklin 1997

GALAPAGOS. Santiago. The hills behind Sullivan Bay. 1999. 

Stuart Franklin 1997

GALAPAGOS. Caba Douglas, Fernandina. Mating terrestrial iguanas.... 

Stuart Franklin 1997

GALAPAGOS. Caamano Island. Martin Witelski, working with the... 

Stuart Franklin 1997

ECUADOR. Manta, Manabi. In the fishing dock at Manta there is... 

Stuart Franklin 1997

ECUADOR. Manta, Manabi. Yellow fin and Adalberto tuna being unloaded.... 

Stuart Franklin 1997

GALAPAGOS. Plazas. Plazas is popular with tourists who come to... 

Stuart Franklin 1997

GALAPAGOS. Santiago. The volcanic pahoehoe lava at Sullivan Bay.... 

Stuart Franklin 1997

GALAPAGOS.Villamil. Armado Lapo and his wife, Teresa Taolombo... 

Stuart Franklin 1997

GALAPAGOS.El Chato, Santa Cruz. In 1996 twenty one giant tortoises... 

Stuart Franklin 1997

GALAPAGOS Santiago. A small island near the coast of Santa Cruz.... 

Stuart Franklin 1997

GALAPAGOS.Santiago. Overview of Sullivan Bay. 1999. 

Stuart Franklin 1997

FLOREANA. Post Office Bay.A German tourist reads postcards at... 
Display 
Items per page