Greenpeace: If life fades from the mountains, so will the mountains

Mountains are the heart of life. From them come the vital resources that sustain our cities, and they are home to an incomparable biodiversity. They house the tapir, the architect of the forests, and the spectacled bear, the guardian of the páramos. This December 11th, on International Mountain Day, we raise our voice with a clear message: if the tapir disappears, ecosystems collapse; if the spectacled bear vanishes, forests and páramos cease to exist. To illustrate this pressing reality, we’ve turned the very geography of the mountains into a unique graphic that shows the dramatic decline in the populations of species that inhabit them. The mountain is not only at risk; it’s losing its shape. It’s time to act before what sustains all life begins to crumble.