艰难的复兴：加拉帕戈斯群岛上的生态修复

Scientists are ramping up an ambitious project to reverse centuries of ecological destruction on a Galápagos island I n a fog-veiled, muddy forest, David Anchundia has his ears perked. “You hear them before you see them,” the ornithologist says, binocu- lars in hand, as he scours the foliage for a plump, bright-red bird. The brujo flycatcher—or as many locals call it, the pajaro brujo (“witch bird”)—is one of the Galápagos Islands’s flagship species. The flashy songbird used to flit all over the archipelago, even in coastal towns. But its populations started to crash about 30 years ago. On two islands it went locally extinct. On four others it is increasingly rare. …