A piece of tropical forest in Colombia in Polish hands

Polish scientists will be employed in hard-to- reach regions of Colombia. A Polish research will be built in a tropical forest in Colombia.

Two years of efforts, collecting money and succeeded. We'll have a large piece of Colombia forest for the research station. This will enable the establishment of a nature reserve there, and in the future- the first Polish tropical research station- The Polish La Palma base will be settled mainly by scientists from the University of Łódź.

Until now, Polish research bases were located in rather hostile and cold regions of the world, for example in the Arctic or the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen . This time will be different.

The Polish Biodiversitatis foundation has just bought 30 hectares of mountain forest in the northern Andes (southern Colombia) at altitude of over 2000 m a.s.l. he will establish the "La Palma" research station there.

The Foundation has been conducting extensive research on South American orchids for over 10 years, primarily in Colombia. During her expedition to date, she discovered new for science species of these flowers but the cost of using the infrastructure of other universities. Having your own base will be cheaper.

In total, there are abour one-tenth of all plant species ever discovered worldwide in Colombia and many are still unknown, because the area is difficult to access and densely planted.

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