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Photographs by Jaime Rojo
Visitors to the Sorteny Valley Natural Park can explore its 2,670 mountainous acres on their own or on guided excursions to view wildlife and glacial lakes. A lodge offers sleeping quarters and sustenance.
Sedum and mosses add their bright hues to the Sorteny Valley Natural Park.
The Madriu River flows near the village of Entremesaigües in the UNESCO-inscribed Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley.
In eastern Andorra, the Pic de Setut mountain soars to more than 9,000 feet.
Near the town of El Pas de la Casa, yellow martagon lillies bloom with a distinctive musky scent.
Moss campion, an evergreen wildflower, clings to an exposed ridge in the Ordino Biosphere Reserve.
A male capercaillie roams the woods of Andorra, where citizen scientists are helping to document and protect biodiversity.
Fireweed covers a rocky slope of the Sorteny Valley Natural Park, located in the reserve. The park, which hosts two of the study sites, has more than 800 species of plants.
In the Ordino Biosphere Reserve, where all the research takes place, flora flourishes. One common species is the alpenrose, a kind of rhododendren.
Black pine trees blanket the Coll d’Ordino. Mountains are good places to research climate effects because of climatic compression—environmental conditions shift over relatively short distances. “The changes are easier to see,” Claramunt-López says. “We just need to hike up!”