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Darwin's Galapagos [video 1 min 04 sec]

On the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, the director of the Darwin Foundation says there is only a decade to avoid an ecological disaster.

In a BBC interview, Gabriel Lopez calls for limits on the level of visitors.

Last year, the number of tourists reached a record of 173,000, a four-fold increase over the past 20 years.

Read entire article at BBC