Small Life in the Sand of Rapa Nui

Small Life in the Sand of Rapa Nui

Small Life in the Sand of Rapa Nui In just a handful of sand from the sea can be hundreds of thousands of small meiofauna animals. This worm with many appendages is a nerillid, a member of polychaetes, which include meiofaunal as well as many larger forms. Everyone...
PURE The Endangered Sea Snail

PURE The Endangered Sea Snail

PURE The Endangered Sea Snail by Ernesto Díaz CabreraEstudiante Doctorado en Ciencias, mención Ecología y Biología Evolutiva de la Universidad de ChileDoctoral candidate in Science of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Chile Pure is a sea snail which has...
Bees Rapa Nui

Bees Rapa Nui

Bees Rapa Nui Free of Pathogens, a Source of Life and Love Bees were introduced to Easter Island by the Catholic missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the decade of the 1860s, and since then have been pollinating guavas, mangoes, bananas and pasture flowers. In...
El Tavake and its future

El Tavake and its future

The Tavake And its future, a challenge for Rapa Nui One of the loveliest spots on the Island is the Moai (statue) quarry at Rano Raraku. Anyone who has visited it has seen or heard the Tavakes, the red-tailed tropicbird. These majestic white birds, with their bright...
Toromiro Revives on Rapa Nui

Toromiro Revives on Rapa Nui

Toromiro Revives on Rapa Nui Etnobotany Recovery   The toromiro, a sacred tree planted around ceremonial centers, was declared extinct over 50 years ago. The last one was seen in the crater at Rano Kau during Thor Heyerdahl’s expedition in 1956. There have been...