Puracé National Natural Park is the most likely site to hold any remaining population of "G. g. lehmanni". The La Planada Nature Reserve subpopulation may have recently gone extinct; it was not found anymore in the 1990s. "G. g. hylodroma" is found in Mindo-Nambillo Protection Forest, Bosque Integral Otonga, Refugio Paz de Aves near Nanegalito, Pacha Quindi Nature Refuge and Botanical Gardens, and the Maquipucuna and Río Guajalito forest reserves. Around these protected areas, deforestation is severe however. The nominate subspecies occurs in the protected forests of Antisana Ecological Reserve and San Isidro Lodge.