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 | | Another area to benefit from the debt swap initiative is the Andean Oak Corridor, in the northwest, home to one of the broadest extensions of oak trees in the country. |
 | | WWF says that zone has unique elements of biodiversity, including a seemingly endless array of endemic species, as well as animals that require large areas of natural habitat to survive, like the Andean (or spectacled) bear (Tremarctos ornatus) and the tapir (Tapirus pinchaque). |
 | | Money is also to be earmarked for the Sumapaz-Tinigua Conservation Corridor, in central Colombia, where there is natural diversity characteristic of Amazonian and Andean ecosystems, including hummingbirds, which use the hillsides in their migratory journey. |
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