{"id":88377,"date":"2020-08-03T17:12:16","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T11:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=16690"},"modified":"2020-08-03T17:12:16","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T11:42:16","slug":"ecuador-on-alert-over-huge-chinese-fishing-fleet-off-galapagos-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ecuador-on-alert-over-huge-chinese-fishing-fleet-off-galapagos-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecuador on alert over huge Chinese fishing fleet off Galapagos Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>Ecuador is on alert due to the appearance of Chinese fishing boats off its Galapagos Islands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/qvsFrvlpxDthOeorWg9FM186iVp9aMANyvCen4gm1Ge_jfSdstbRmtNf4ZB_cSOh43wR2OB-viDePjszyUxcpcR4UX0NS5oGEaqdQTmjq_RNzBppgbXlCvgfFk2E1eLP0-U-QuonElMlnJ5D0g\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Gal\u00e1pagos Islands: <\/strong>It is an archipelago of volcanic islands distributed on either side of the equator in the Pacific Ocean.It is administratively a province of Ecuador.<\/li><li><strong>Formation: <\/strong>The islands were formed at the meeting point of three tectonic plates\u2014the Nazca, Cocos, and Pacific and are situated at the crossroads of three major Pacific currents.<\/li><li><strong>World Heritage Site: <\/strong>In 1978, the Galapagos islands was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage site.<\/li><li><strong>Significance: <\/strong>The islands are known for their large number of endemic species such as land iguana, giant tortoise that were studied by Charles Darwin which contributed to the inception of Darwin&#8217;s theory of evolution.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Ecuador is on alert due to the appearance of Chinese fishing boats off its Galapagos Islands. Facts: Gal\u00e1pagos Islands: It is an archipelago of volcanic islands distributed on either side of the equator in the Pacific Ocean.It is administratively a province of Ecuador. Formation: The islands were formed at the meeting point of three&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ecuador-on-alert-over-huge-chinese-fishing-fleet-off-galapagos-islands\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ecuador on alert over huge Chinese fishing fleet off Galapagos Islands<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[5769,6083],"class_list":["post-88377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","tag-ecuador","tag-galapagos-island","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704730208},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}