by Esmoi | Jan 8, 2020 | Living nature, Living nature
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...
by moeVarua Rapa Nui | Dec 31, 2019 | Living nature, Undersea world
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...
by Alexander Lipthay | Dec 29, 2019 | Living nature
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...
by moeVarua Rapa Nui | Oct 25, 2019 | Living nature
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...
by moeVarua Rapa Nui | Oct 25, 2019 | Living nature, Undersea world
Marine Reserve in the bay of hanga roa According to the experts and the international NGOs that are dedicated to marine conservation, the oceans should be managed as ecosystems and not as a cornucopia that the fishing industry can harvest at will. In the entire world,...
by Alexander Lipthay | Oct 24, 2019 | Living nature
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...
