Rapa Nui: An Oasis for Marine Turtles

Rapa Nui: An Oasis for Marine Turtles

Rapa Nui: An Oasis for Marine Turtles Authors: Rocío Álvarez Varas, Camila González Johannes, Michel García Baral. Marine turtles are migratory animals which live in all the oceans of the world, with the exceptions of the Arctic and Antarctic.  Within their life...
Manu Puhi

Manu Puhi

Manu Puhi – The whistling Bird of Rapa Nui By Tannia Ramírez Medina – U. de Chile – ESMOI Getting to Rapa Nui today involves 5 hours of flying at almost 1000 kilometers (600 miles) per hour. Have you ever wondered, how then did the little creatures which inhabit...
The Great Ocean Predators of Rapa Nui

The Great Ocean Predators of Rapa Nui

By Naití Morales – ESMOI, Universidad Católica del Norte. The great predators of the sea, such as sharks, tunas, swordfish, bonitos and others which are called “top predators”, are all those species which are found at the top of a food chain or trophic level. ...