12/10/2021
The Sierra Nevada (also name of our collection) is located in the North of Colombia. It’s the highest coastal mountain range in the world. From the blue Caribbean Sea you can see the snowy peaks of the mountains. What makes this place even more magical is that within this small area you can find almost every kind of landscape: coral reefs, sandy beaches, deserts, rainforests, tropical dry forests, savannas, tundra, alpine lakes, glaciers - all connected and keeping each other in balance.
The variety of landscape gives this area difference in plants and animals, species are unique to this place with great biodiversity.
Due to climate change and the planet heats up, the glaciers are disappearing. During the past 150 years, the massif has lost more than 92 percent of its ice, and scientist predict that the rest will be gone within the next 30 years. If that happens, the rivers that flow from these peaks will begin to run dry, and jeopardizing the animals and plants in the varied ecosystems and lives of not only the Arhuaco, but also millions of people in the region below.
The last two years the rivers had taken so much water from the glaciers and entire villages have been flooded affecting not just the biodiversity but also the tribes sustaining and living there with harmlessly.
