On the Ground

Learn how an initiative like Acción Andina can help to mitigate a Super El Niño year.

Watch these new shorts to learn more about the communities making protection and restoration possible.

Leslie Danoff shares how two events came together and inspired her to co-found GFG.

By Florent Kaiser, CEO, Global Forest GenerationCo-founder, Acción Andina Water Security Is Economic Security South America’s water crisis is no longer an environmental problem. It’s an economic one. The Andes — the continent’s hydrological spine — sustain 140 million people and 236 cities across both the Amazon and Pacific basins. Each year, these mountain ecosystems […]

At Global Forest Generation, we’ve known from the beginning that restoring one million hectares of high-Andean native forests and safeguarding water for millions of people would require more than passion and partnerships. It would take a financial strategy as ambitious and grounded as the work itself. This may be one of the hardest parts of […]

Imagine this: One wakes up in Ecuador’s highlands or capital, hoping for a hot shower, but there’s no electricity — worse, there’s no water. Why? Because of an environmental, water, and energy crisis. Though there are dams to generate electricity (some poorly built), five months of drought have left them at a third of their […]