The páramo covers slopes above 10,000 feet in elevation all over the Andes Mountains, and acts like a giant sponge absorbing moisture.

The ancient mountains ... dream was to plant millions of trees and I’m not going to do that alone,” he says. Each year, in the valleys around Cusco, a city in the Peruvian Andes, Acción ...

Estudio fitogeográfico. (The Plant World of the Peruvian Andes. Phytogeographical Study.) By A. Weberbauer. Second, revised and enlarged edition. Pp. xix + 776 + 43 plates, map in pocket.

Getty Images/iStockphoto Throughout the cloud forests of the Ecuadorian Andes ... region of Ecuador and Colombia — a biodiverse region home to a massive variety of plant and animal species ...

DURHAM, N.C., April 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S.-based nonprofit Saving Nature has secured 865 acres in Colombia's Western Andes—an urgent step to protect one of the most biologically rich and ...