On 4 May the Colombian Embassy and the IUCN Netherlands Committee (www.iucn.nl) presented the Spanish edition of the Atlas “Los Páramos del Mundo” edited by Dr. Robert Hofstede, co-ordinator of the international Páramo Group (www.paramo.org). The peaty Páramos cover significant parts of the alpine zone of the Northen Andes, East-Africa and SE-Asia and are diverse ecosystems, culturally as well as biologically. They are highly threathened by conversion.
The book was presented to the Embassadors of Colombia, Costa Rica, Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador in the Netherlands with the request to support initiatives in their countries for the sustainable management of these important and long neglected ecosystems.