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.
Asociacion Ecosistemas Andinos (ECOAN) is a Peruvian conservation organization founded in 2001 and based in Cusco. ECOAN provides long-term protection and restoration of threatened Andean ecosystems in partnership with local communities and authorities through land protection and management, reforestation, community engagement, applied science, and developing long-term funding mechanisms for projects. ECOAN is Acción Andina’s lead administrative, conservation and coordinating partner.
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.