Island's famous moai statues are crumbling into the sea, forcing locals to face urgent decisions about how best to protect ...

Island, or Rapa Nui, is a unique and mysterious place, known for its moai statues and rich biodiversity. Despite its small ...

Easter Island's famous moai statues slowly fading away 13:32. Now we take you on a journey to Easter Island. It's one of the most remote inhabited islands in the world, far into the Pacific, 2200 ...

"We think we know all the moai, but then a new one turns up." Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui, is famous for the 1,000 stone heads called moai that dot its hills and coastline. They were carved ...

By 1877, the island’s population dwindled to as little as 111.The population has rebounded, with an estimated 2,000 native people living there today in a population of about 7,000. But threats ...

Experts have worked out how the ancient people of Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, were able to place massive stone hats on the island’s famous statues. A team of researchers that includes experts ...

HANGA ROA, Easter Island, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Charred Moai stone statues on Easter Island, singed in a wildfire earlier this year, are signs of a growing tension between landowners and ...

A spate of bad behavior by travelers on Easter Island, famed for its enormous statues known as moai, has spurred new conversations about overtourism and how visitors to the island should behave.

Moai statues stand on Ahu Tongariki, Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, Chile, Sunday, Nov, 27, 2022. Each monolithic human figure carved centuries ago by this remote Pacific island’s Rapanui people ...

Easter Island never had a catastrophic population collapse, researchers propose in a new study that looks at archaeological rock gardens. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

He says the study confirms that the island was populated with people who lived resiliently and successfully until the arrival of Europeans. Journal reference: Nature DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07881-4 ...

Easter Island's famous moai statues slowly fading away 13:40. On this Easter Sunday, we thought it would be fitting to take you on a journey to Easter Island.