They’re also home to forests of lesser-known but critically important polylepis – known as “cloud trees.” Growing up to 5,000 meters above sea level, they are the highest-altitude trees in ...

SOOTHING VENOM Venom from the black mamba (Dendroaspis polylepis polylepis) could hold the key to new means of pain relief. The black mamba, Dendroaspis polylepis polylepis, is one of the most ...

In late January 2024, large flames roared past the wooden cabins that make up the Polylepis Lodge in the rural town of El Ángel in Carchi province, consuming delicate stretches of the páramo ...

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 ...

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