Acción Andina is a Latin-American led, large-scale, native forest landscape restoration initiative, which aims to protect and restore one million hectares of threatened high Andean, Polylepis forest ecosystems in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela over the next 25 years. Internationally supported by non-profits Global Forest Generation and ECOAN, local conservation organizations partner with rural and indigenous communities to bring back native forests, mainly for water security and climate resilience.