Project
Acción Serrana: Reforesting Polylepis Mountains in Córdoba
Acción Serrana: Reforesting Polylepis Mountains in Córdoba
Partner
Fundación de Actividades Biosféricas
Fundación de Actividades Biosféricas (FAB) is an Argentinian NGO. It coordinates reforestation projects, capacity building, and training programs on conservation of mountain ecosystems and the restoration of polylepis forests with a team of innovative scientist and teachers working for the protection of biodiversity, regeneration of ecosystems, and sustainable development of both ecological and socio-cultural environments throughout the Córdoba region.
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
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.