Project Highlights Acción Andina has planted 1,528,969 native trees across 11 projects in Peru and Ecuador in 2024 and 2025 with the support of the Priceless Planet Coalition. After five years of rigorous monitoring and maintenance, 1,114,471 of those trees are expected to be restored (meaning 80% survive). Behind this restoration win is a network […]
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The Money Exists. The Frameworks Don’t. Why Water Infrastructure Funding Struggles to Reach Watersheds.
Every year, governments and institutions commit billions to water infrastructure, and almost none of it reaches the ecosystems that make that infrastructure work. Mountains are the source of up to 60% of the world’s freshwater flows. High-altitude forests, wetlands, and peatlands regulate those flows, sustaining more than two billion people. In the Andes, it is […]
CEO Newsletter #8 | A Continent Coming Together Through Nature
Read Florent Kaiser’s eighth biweekly CEO newsletter on the connections between water, ecosystems, culture, and restoration across South America and why lasting environmental change depends on recognizing nature as the foundation of prosperity and resilience. In this edition: Read the full issue.
Warmi Kewiñas: Guardians of Forests
Watch this new video to witness the heart of restoration: a dedicated group of women bringing life back to the Andes.
Defending Forests from Fire
Watch this new video for a glimpse of the impact that community-led fire brigades are making in Bolivia.
Heartwood: What the Andes Taught Me
By Abby P. Metzger, Communications Director I have never had an onboarding experience like Global Forest Generation. A little more than a week after starting as the Communications Director, our restoration initiative, Acción Andina, was named a finalist for The Earthshot Prize, a global environmental award spearheaded by Prince William. We were among 15 finalists […]
Raindrops to Rivers: How watersheds influence ecosystems, lives, and communities
Everybody on the planet lives in a watershed. Even those in places that receive little rain, are land-locked, or located far from a source of water. Watersheds, or drainage basins, are seemingly invisible divisions of land that define the flow of water – from raindrops on hills to rivers in valleys – as it makes […]
CEO Newsletter #7 | Investing in the Source of South America’s Water Future: Water from the Andes
Read Florent Kaiser’s seventh biweekly CEO newsletter on why protecting the Andes is essential to South America’s water future and how Acción Andina is expanding its restoration strategy to strengthen water security across the region. In this edition: Read the full issue.
CEO Newsletter #6 | Community Services, Continental Impact
Read Florent Kaiser’s sixth biweekly CEO newsletter on how community-led investments in water, livelihoods, and local infrastructure are helping build resilience across the Andes. In this edition: Read the full issue.
CEO Newsletter #5 | Restoration: A Brilliant Business Strategy
Read Florent Kaiser’s fifth biweekly CEO newsletter on the growing scale of Acción Andina’s restoration movement and why investing in healthy ecosystems, water security, and local communities creates lasting value. In this edition: Read the full issue.