Judas goats were sterilized and injected with hormones to make them permanently in estrus (heat). These unwitting traitors were then set free around the islands, irresistible bait for the fugitives.

Visiting the Galapagos Islands — which have long been considered Charles Darwin’s natural laboratory — is like stepping into a nature documentary. You can snorkel with playful sea lions ...

And then there are the biggest invaders of them all. Goats. Onward has written about the demolition power of goats before, last fall on Kauai, where goats threaten some of the world’s rarest ...

Goats were successfully introduced to Santiago Island, which sits in the middle of the Galapagos archipelago, over the 1920s and 1940s. The goats grazed the island mercilessly, causing erosion ...

50 years ago. The Galapagos Archipelago is on the equator about 1,400 kilometres off the Ecuadorian coast. Darwin was there for 35 days in 1835, and was deeply influenced by what he saw … ...

The Galápagos rail (Laterallus spilonota), a small, elusive bird once believed extinct on Floreana Island, has been spotted ...

Ecuador is investigating the deaths of four endangered Galápagos giant tortoises. Authorities fear they were killed and eaten.

From the time those 14 tortoises were taken into captivity between 1963 and 1974 until they were finally released in 2020, conservationists with the NGO Galápagos Conservancy and the Galapagos ...

Goats overgrazed the plants the tortoises ate while rats preyed on their eggs. Over time, the tortoise population plummeted. On Española, an island in the southeast of the archipelago, the ...

Flag details and a bugler stood at attention. Before the South Seymour Island Service Club, the U.S. garrison faced the Ecuadorean sailors. Galápagos goats idled nearby. Then the bugler blew ...