Project
Restoring the Biodiversity of the Jujuy Landscape
Restoring the Biodiversity of the Jujuy Landscape
Initiative
Acción Andina
Acción Andina is a Latin-American led, large-scale, forest restoration initiative, which aims to restore one million hectares of threatened high Andean, Polylepis forest 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.
Partner
Árbol y Vida
Árbol y Vida seeks to improve the quality and quantity of native forests in Jujuy, Argentina. It is composed of teachers, students and other volunteers who are highly motivated to care for the natural environment. The Organization was inspired by the doctoral thesis of Agricultural Engineer David Ezequiel Medina, who in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, reforested 2,100 Polylepis trees. Árbol y Vida’s mission is to mitigate the ecological imbalances caused by deforestation
Strategic Partner
Global Forest Generation
Global Forest Generation​ (​ GFG), founded in 2018 as a US-based non-profit, is the lead strategic partner of ​Acción Andina​ ​and provides technical, management, and finance mobilization support to bring the initiative to scale. GFG serves as the main partner for donors, investors, and the conservation and development community: it insures quality, long-term sustainability, and effective implementation during all project phases and also provides key communication and reporting capacities.