News Headline

Ecuador’s Fragile Páramo Ecosystem Threatened by Climate Change

Source
Inter Press Service News Agency

Publication Date
2013-06-04

The “páramos” or high plateaus of Ecuador, a crucial source of water, are showing signs of extreme fragility and a troubling loss of capacity to conserve this vital resource and sustain the survival of numerous species found nowhere else on earth.

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http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/06/ecuadors-fragile-paramo-ecosystem-threatened-by-climate-change/