#Galapagos guides to ‘barcode’ wildlife
“#Galapagos guides to ‘barcode’ wildlife” Animals have replaced tourists in once-busy parts of Isabela Island Credit: Carolina Proano Galapagos tourist guides are being retrained to catalog the islands’ famous biodiversity. The COVID-19 pandemic has left many eco-tourism workers unemployed, and the “Barcoding Galapagos” scheme will see them survey wildlife and plants using “genetic fingerprinting”. The…