Up a steep set of 150 steps with beautiful country views brings you to a trail to explore the high Andean forests surrounding the lagoon.” “If you don’t have time to visit the Zona Cafetera ...

The spectacled bear is native to Andean countries like Peru, Ecuador, northern Argentina, Bolivia and Venezuela and lives in scrublands, grasslands, and forests. Experts believe there are anywhere ...

One of them was Acción Andina (Andean Action), an initiative that has launched 25 restoration and conservation projects focused on the high-altitude Polylepis forests of Peru, Chile, Bolivia ...

While the Andean forests of Colombia have undergone significant change over thousands of years, there’s scarce detail about their baseline vegetation and its response to that change. The peace treaty ...

His research focuses on disturbance ecology in the context of climate change and human impacts on temperate forest ecosystems in North America and South America. Since 1975 he has conducted ...

Cloud forests are among the most biodiverse places ... But, experts say, growing the foliage for bouquets at these higher Andean altitudes has become a bigger business in more recent years.

We anticipate that the use of this system will encourage local residents to conserve the fragile forest ecosystems of the Andean-Amazon region and to use ecosystem services in a sustainable fashion.

It stretched north to south some 2,500 miles along the high mountainous Andean range from Colombia ... called Atacama to the steamy Amazonian rain forest. At the height of its existence the ...

Andean condors are massive birds, among the largest in the world that are able to fly. Because they are so heavy (up to 33 pounds), even their enormous 10-foot wingspan needs some help to keep ...