About us
Acción Andina maintains healthy Andean ecosystems and will help to perpetuate the ecosystem services of one million hectares of Polylepis forests and high Andean wetlands. Our large-scale restoration and conservation actions provide both economic and conservation benefits to communities. Our model and its results will be replicated in other biospheres on the planet. While Acción Andina was founded by US nonprofit Global Forest Generation (GFG) and Peruvian nonprofit Asociación Ecosistemas Andinos (ECOAN) in 2018, its roots go back much further. It was built on a foundation of friendship and common vision which began over two decades ago with conservation leaders Constantino (Tino) Aucca, and George and Rita Fenwick. In 2017, during a trip to visit Tino’s restoration project in Peru, the group, joined by co-founder Leslie Danoff, decided to launch Global Forest Generation to help achieve his dream of a large-scale, community-led restoration initiative throughout the high Andes. In 2019, GFG hired Florent Kaiser as the Executive Director and later CEO. Acción Andina has since then evolved into a significant multi-country initiative and is continuing its mission to restore forests across South America.
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Los Pinos D1-B, Wanchaq, Cusco, Cusco, Peru