All forests have their own personality. A unique scent and voice. Listen with your breath, and you will inhale the forest’s deepest most wonderous secrets.
The Alarachi Cloud-Forest Reserve is one the most biologically diverse places on Earth.
It provides a home to over 400 registered species of fauna. Many of these extraordinary creatures are on the list of endangered species, including the: puma, ocelot, taruca, jaguar, tapir, taitetu/peccaries, capuchin monkey, nine-banded armadillos and mountain turkey.
Andean condors, whistling herons, Chilean flamingos, white-rumped hawks, scaly-headed parrots, Andean pygmy owls and military macaws are among the 250-plus bird species found in Alarachi.
There are also over 1500 varieties of flora including 112 arboreal species with “high priority” conservation status, like the cebil, brasil-nut, laurel, cedar and lapacho.
There are several species of endemic plants too, particularly the wild orchids.
But the fungi… well Bolivia is one of the least studied countries of South America. Currently there are about 400 species of lichens known from Bolivia, but it is estimated that about 80% of lichen species are still waiting to be discovered.