The UNESCO World Natural Heritage Site Sangay National Park in
central Ecuador is as a remote, unmapped, and threatened area as few
others of its kind in Latin America. It is truly a "Terra Incognita,"
but it certainly encloses staggering levels of biodiversity. The
latter is a somehow sophisticated concept not readily understood by
developers and policy makers as it is by biologists and ecologists.
The point is that all of us should understand that biodiversity is as
fundamental for guaranteeing the continuity of life on Earth as clean
water, air, soil and energy are. If future generations want to succeed
in maintaining the persistence of a multifarious and interconnected
Life, we have to guarantee them now the conditions for a
Biodiverse-Life. Such a conditions reach levels of sumptuous
complexity and richness in the tropics, where sun and water are at
their utmost concentrations: as in Sangay Park.
Parque Sangay: Razones
Last updated July 1, 2001.
Copyright © Sangay Foundation 2001.