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The high degree of endemism here is a source of both scientific inspiration and concern, like it is on the Galápagos Islands.

From Science Daily • Feb. 20, 2024

The situation is often even more dire on islands that have a high rate of endemism — species that grow nowhere else in the world — and are cut off from potential refuges.

From Reuters • Dec. 10, 2022

Ecuador’s decision in 1959 to create the Galápagos Islands National Park has preserved an archipelago with some of the highest levels of endemism, or species found nowhere else.

From New York Times • Aug. 26, 2022

In the tropics, these losses certainly also represent the extinction of species because of high levels of endemism.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Pyle and Kosaki have long puzzled over such high levels of endemism, which they attribute in part to Hawaii's remoteness.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 2, 2017