Quito, Ecuador - A volcano has started to erupt on one of the Galapagos Islands, but authorities said on Friday that the few unique animal species on the island were not in immediate danger.
The Cumbre volcano on Fernandina Island, which has no human inhabitants, started to erupt early Thursday, sending a two-kilometre-wide column of vapour and ash seven kilometres into the sky, Hugo Yepez, director of Ecuador's Geophysics Institute told Radio Quito.
Unlike several of the other islands in the chain, Fernandina, located on the western side of the archipelago, has few rare birds and iguanas and is not a main tourist attraction.
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"I don't believe it would be necessary to do anything still in terms of security but to wait for nature to take its course," said Washington Tapia, director of the Galapagos National Park.
The Galapagos Islands, about 1 000 kilometres off Ecuador's Pacific coast, are home to unique animal species that inspired Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. - Sapa-AP
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