Hiking 14 500 feet high slopes to the Polylepis forests. (Photo by Márton Hardy)
At dawns early light, Quechua campesinos from Puina gather to climb the 14 500 feet high slopes of the Bolivian Tropical Andes.…
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25 500 Polylepis saplings planted by local Quechua communities, staff from the # Madidi national park and Armonía: The most extensive Polylepis restauration in Bolivia to this date!
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This 5th of May it is Global Big Day. In 2016 Bolivia has not even participated to Big Day, yet in 2017 we impulsed the country to the #14 of the…
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Herpetologists from Armonia’s ‘Polylepis Forests’ project, who also work for the ‘Identidad Madidi’ project, discovered four species of amphibians not yet known to science. These amphibians of the genus Microkayla (formerly Psychrophrynella) are small and…
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Learn more about the Polylepis forests in Puina from Isaac Toro, Quechua community member of Puina working with Armonía to restore to one of the most threatened habitats of the Bolivian…
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Bolivia #14 en el #GlobalBigDay - the international day of bird watching organized by eBird of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Interview with Sebastian K. Herzog - scientific director of Armonía…
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In 2017 nine Critically Endangered Blue-throated Macaw chicks have successfully hatched from Armonia’s nest box program. The news is especially encouraging as this is the first time we recorded a chick…
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Meet researchers from the Wageningen University and the University of Glasgow at #BarbaAzulNatureReserve. With over 300 bird species, 27 species of medium & large mammals and breathtaking landscapes Barba Azul is…
71 Blue-throated Macaw chicks has fledged from our nest boxes in 2017 (Photo: Aidan Maccormick)
2017 was an important year for the conservation of the Blue Throated Macaw (Ara glaucogularis). A record number of nine macaws…
Anfibio del genero Microkayla (anteriormente Psychrophrynella). Son pequeños y solo habitan en los Altos Andes tropicales de Bolivia. (Foto: Mauricio OcampoÖ
It has been twenty seven years since the famous ornithologist Ted Parker, together with a…
Over half of the Polylepis-dependent species are endangered like the Critically Endangered Royal Cinclodes (Photo by: Rodrigo W. Soria-Auza)
Polylepis forest once covered the slopes of the tropical Andes from Venezuela to Argentina, today the distribution…
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In early February, an Armonía expedition discovered a new breeding area of the Critically Endangered Blue-throated Macaw (Ara glaucogularis). The groundbreaking discovery is a major step towards understanding the life cycle…