Understanding what is present, how it functions, and what it requires for its persistence is prerequisite for any effective conservation intervention.

The ongoing work of botanists, zoologists, geologists, and ecologists in the tepui highlands contributes to the knowledge base that conservation decision-making depends on.

Why The Mountain Draws Us

There is something about a place that looks like the edge of the world — that rises from a lowland landscape like a fortress wall, that hides its summit in clouds, that harbors life forms found nowhere else — that exerts a particular pull on human imagination.

The appeal of Roraima to the people who have known it — the Pemón and their ancestors, the European explorers who first climbed it, the scientists who have studied it, the trekkers who make the multi-day journey to its summit, the millions who have learned about it through photographs and documentaries and books — is not reducible to a single quality.