“Everything that happens in the Andes ends up affecting the Amazon Rainforest and vice versa,” Efrain Turpo, a specialist at the Bien Común Institute and MapBiomas Peru, told Mongaba ...

The ancient mountains of the Andes are home to spectacled bears, pumas and the magnificent Andean condor. They’re also home to forests of lesser-known but critically important polylepis ...

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The southern Chilean Andes provide a stunning travel destination with natural wonders, outdoor activities and cultural sites.

Constantino Aucca Chutas is a biologist, and part of the Rolex Perpetual Planet Initiative. The ancient mountains of the Andes are home to spectacled bears, pumas and the magnificent Andean condor.

amid the humid cloud forests that once covered the foothills of the Andes Mountains. By 2000, the cloud forests of Centinela Ridge were gone – cut down and plowed under to plant fields of ...