Resources

• The official web page for the Charles Darwin Foundation.  Contains publications, a photo gallery, and links.  http://www.galapagos.org/
  
  
• Another official site for the Darwin Foundation.  It contains information about the animals and plants of the Galápagos Islands and talks about the various projects the Foundation currently works on. The kids Corner allows easy access to most of the issues surrounding conservation in the Galapagos.  http://www.darwinfoundation.org/index.html
  
  
• This site contains an interactive book titled “Restoring the Tortoise Dynasty”.  There you will find a movie and information on Lonesome George. 
  http://www.darwinfoundation.org/Restoring/index.html
  
  
• PBS has a cyber field trip for students and for teachers through the Galápagos Islands:  http://www.pbs.org/safarchive/galapagos.html
  
  
• Endangered Birds of the Galápagos:
  http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/jblincow/endanger/endgalap.htm
  
  
• A site that talks about the endangered giant tortoises of the Galápagos: 
  http://www.discovergalapagos.com/tortoise.html
  
  
• An article written for kids about the Galápagos giant tortoises:  http://www.kidzworld.com/site/p366.htm
  
  
• A collection of student projects.  Students are able to submit information about endangered animals and the information is published on this web page:  http://www.schoolworld.asn.au/species/outline.html