In a valuation world discussing about sustainability, ESG, M&A, valuation of collaterals, climate change issues, AI, technology, challenges to go through. We decided to take a break from all this interesting topics to go with some our VALAQ´s team, other professionals and friends from different backgrounds who joins us to go out for a walk around and uphill on the closest place to the open space in the world. The #Chimborazo volcano.
We started off our walk at 05:30 am from 3,820 AMSL with Gabi as our walk leader to warm our muscle up before start ascending onto the volcano itself. As we were walking up the hill we made our first stop after one and a half hour at 4432 AMSL where we were rewarded with the benefits drawn from all this effort of dramatic views far in the distance over and across the Central Ecuador´s Andes as well as the extraordinary wild beauty of the volcano´s ecosystem. In fact, the volcano´s ecosystem is featured as being surrounded by beautiful and large Páramo vast areas, large volcanic rocks and vicuñas. It was enough by then to give as a glimpse of how wonderful nature is before to continue on our journey. After a few hours, we stopped again, this time at 5050 AMSL for refreshments when, a very insightful discussion about the #Páramo ecosystem began, and we were lucky enough to have a #Curiquingue as a witness while contemplating tremendous views across “minor” mountains 3000 AMSL far in the distance). The discussion was about our impressions on the whole experience and the Chimborazo´s volcano making a point upon Páramo ecosystem. Páramo is typical Andean ecoregion which may be better defined as Intertropical Alpine Ecosystem which ranges from 2 900 up to 5000 AMSL which is featured by being composed of among other but not limited by shrubs, rosette plants and grasses. The grasses belong to an extremely important specie these ecosystems called Paspalum quadrifarium. This botanical specie captures water steam from fog onto its multiple stems where it condensates and turns into droplets as the stems act as condensation surface to the by gravity and weight they begin to slide off and down into the soil where they accumulate themselves as proper masses of water into another biological structures #Plantago rigida, locally called as “colchones de agua” or Water Matress from where an infiltration process through the soil begins to end up into little and large rivers, streams, lakes, ponds, waterfalls and many other water bodies in the country. Whilst there was the sense among the attendees that possibly by considering these biological structures as well as many other and all its ecosystem as assets it might contribute to the water better and rational management, further questions came up from participants:
In the end, we didn´t get to the top of Chimborazo which height is 6310 AMSL, but we only reached up to 5230 AMSL. Nonetheless, it was absolutely #worth the time invested with VALAQ´s colleagues and other parties of the group, and having this sort of experiences makes it realize the #value of nature for all species life. There are three remarkable point we came up with:
After all, ESG and sustainability aren´t only about planting trees, remove waste from streets and call for actions……
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AuthorJavier Ayala - Director of Operations at VALAQ. ArchivesCategories |