
Ecosystem · Land
360 documented species
Species in the spotlight: Eastern Gorilla
Mountain is a living landscape: 360 real species depend on its specific conditions to survive, not on a label on a map.


EQEQReal parks and dive sites where wildlife from this ecosystem lives.
Terrain where conditions change abruptly with altitude. Within a few vertical kilometres, environments as different as a forest and a zone of rock and snow follow one another, so a mountain works as several stacked habitats. High-altitude wildlife faces less oxygen, more radiation and low temperatures, and many species move between elevations with the season, following the food.
Make-up of its documented wildlife
Critically EndangeredEastern Gorilla
Gorilla beringei
VulnerableSnow Leopard
Panthera uncia
VulnerableAndean Condor
Vultur gryphus
Eastern Long-beaked Echidna
Zaglossus bartoni
Brush-tailed Rock Wallaby
Petrogale penicillata
Cuban Solenodon
Solenodon cubanus
Sumatran Orangutan
Pongo abelii
EndangeredSiamang
Symphalangus syndactylus
Critically EndangeredSouthern Muriqui
Brachyteles arachnoides
Red Slender Loris
Loris tardigradus
Long-tailed Chinchilla
Chinchilla lanigera
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108 species in this ecosystem are in a threatened category according to the IUCN.
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