Large cities within the hotspot are expanding because of the massive population growth.

Given the many different areas if this hotspot the ways the land is stripped might be different but is devastating all the same.
People are looking for oil, cutting down trees, mining, and stripping land to build.
The habitat that different species live in is being destroyed.

Human effects

People have made biodiversity in the Tropical Andes decrease.

The forests are threatened by deforestation, dams, roads being built, and the pressure from hydro electrical dams.