Compassion and Empathy

Compassion and Empathy

By Rick Schleicher   The BBC did a series on, “Darwin’s Dangerous Idea”, real interesting, look it up. The idea of evolution and survival of the fittest as a natural and acceptable perspective has historically led to actions like Hitler’s idea of a superior Arian...
Black Rats Around the World

Black Rats Around the World

By Rick Schleicher   Black rats are all over the world, same species. They’re here in the Galapagos too. Having pushed the two-endemic species of rats we have here to near extinction, (one of our rats is/was the size of a dog) they are also wreaking havoc with...
Diveheart

Diveheart

By Rick Schleicher In August of 2015, my kinda/almost girlfriend, now wife, Christina came to visit my son and I in the Galápagos, for the first time. From the moment she got off the boat in the Galápagos, it was as if the animals were performing for her. All I needed...