Bolivia: Major Landscapes and Ecosystems

The Catt-Trax2 Team — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 14:30:08 -0800

Report prepared by Krystal Brennan and Jen Sarchuk, students in BCIT’s Fish, Wildlife and Recreation Program.

Bolivia is one of the ten most diverse countries in the world. The government has a protected areas plan that protects 10% of country and a variety of ecosystems. The Andes Mountains in Bolivia have a 6,542 metre-peak, while Blackcomb Mountain has a peak of only 1,562 metres. That’s over four times as high!

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) maintains a list of the 200 most significant ecoregions, and ten of these are in Bolivia and its neighbouring countries. The ten ecoregions are: Beni Savannas, High Andes Lakes, Central Andean Yungas, Southwestern Amazonian Moist Forests, Chiquitano Dry Forests, Cerrado Woodlands and Savannas, Pantanal Flooded Savanas (seasonally flooded wetlands), Central Andean Dry Puna, Upper Amazon Rivers and Streams, and the Brazilian Shield Upper Amazonian Rivers and Streams.

The Bolivian Government has a National System for Protected Areas (SNAP) with twelve ecoregions including:

the humid montane cloud forest (Yungas)
semi-humid low montane forest
sub-Andean mountain range
sub-Andean Amazon forests
interior Andean dry forests
High Andean plateau (Puna)
Chaquena
Chaco
Amazon forest
Chiquitano dry forest
Pantanal flooded savannas
Cerrado, and Amazon flooded savannas.

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Bolivia: Major Landscapes and Ecosystems

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