81313933 - Business models and finance solutions for conservation, restoration and sustainable use of high Andean wetlands

for the conservation, restoration and sustainable use of high Andean wetlands (with special focus on wetlands of international importance under the Ramsar convention). The high Andean wetlands of Ecuador include a variety of ecosystems (e.g. lagoons, ponds, bogs, swamp meadows, shrub vegetation an

d cloud forest), which are water sources and reservoirs for lower regions. From an altitude of 3300 m above sea level, these ecosystems are collectively referred to as "páramos" covering 1,514,267 ha (about 7% of the country's area). Almost