Together we're Saving Forests and Changing Lives for over twenty years! And we'd love you to be part of it!
Join us in one of the world’s top biodiversity hotspots on the frontline of conservation and sustainability! Amigos de Iracambi is a nonprofit, registered in Brazil and in the US as a 501(c) (3) – situated in one of the world’s top biodiversity hotspots: the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Our goal is to discover better ways to care for the forest and protect our extraordinary biodiversity while generating forest based incomes and improving rural livelihoods.
Our headquarters, in the Iracambi Research Center, is located in a protected area which includes old-growth and succession forest, swamps, and partially degraded land. At our Research Center you’ll be on the front line of biodiversity conservation and sustainability gaining firsthand experience in reforestation, environmental educational, medicinal plants and community outreach.
So what does Iracambi do? We're working with local farmers whereby together we plant native and productive tree species in order to increase farm incomes, restore degraded soils, protect water sources and increase habitat for biodiversity.
What about changing lives? Here's where we work with local farmers, school kids, volunteers and visitors, hosting visits, running workshops and outreach programs designed to raise awareness of the important issues of how to live sustainably, and how to encourage more and more people to join us in the exciting task of protecting one of the most important forests in the world.
Periodically we also help the local community in their agroecology and agroforestry activities which range from growing healthy food free of chemicals to experimenting with shade coffee and using more sustainable techniques.
Facilities at the Research Center include accommodation for 26 researchers, volunteers and visitors, forest nursery, classroom, medicinal plant laboratory, Visitor center, restaurant, system of forest trails and a GIS database. Iracambi also owns the Pico da Graminha Forest Reserve, located around 3 kilometers from the Center, which serves as a base providing overnight accommodation for researchers and visitors.
