Amigos de Iracambi
Our Aims
Amigos de Iracambi is a Brazilian registered non-profit association that works to promote the conservation of the Atlantic Rainforest. Our vision is to see thriving communities living sustainably in a thriving landscape, and our mission is to work with the community to make the conservation of the rainforest more attractive than its destruction.
Our specific objectives are:
- to promote the conservation of the Atlantic Rainforest of Brazil, particularly in the region of Rosário da Limeira, Minas Gerais;
- to support research at the Iracambi Research Center into finding better ways of sustainably managing forest lands, while generating forest-based income that will raise local living standards and encourage landowners to conserve their land;
- to support activities of the Iracambi Research Center that raise awareness of the forest conservation issues among local people (especially young people);
- to work with local farmers to implement better ways of caring for the land, and to share our research findings with the scientific community and the general public.
The directors of Amigos de Iracambi are:
| President | Binka Le Breton, Director, Iracambi Recursos Naturais Ltda; |
| Vice President | Sérgio Aparecido Gonçalves, former Director of the Environmental Department in Rosário da Limeira, and council member; |
| Secretary | Sérgio da Silva Matos, biologist and local community member; |
| Treasurer | Fabiola Neves, accountant, of Rosário da Limeira; |
| Advisory panel | Maria Cristina Vieira, Vice President, Association of Private Reserve Owners, MG; |
| Dárcio Calais, Associação Mineira de Silvicultura, Belo Horizonte; | |
| Joaquim Ferreira de Laia, local community leader; | |
| Maria Irene Cardoso, professor, Soils Department, Federal University of Viçosa; | |
| Rosana Cambraia, professor of nutrition, Federal University of Diamantina; | |
| Paulo Sérgio Ferreira Neto, consultant on community development; | |
Check out our Annual Report
Our Friends around the World:
Our supporters in the United Kingdom have formed Amigos de Iracambi (UK) to help us with fund-raising and publicity in the UK. The Society is registered with the Charities Commission.
In the USA, we are supported by Amigos de Iracambi (US) Inc., which has been granted tax exemption status under Section 501 (c) (iii) of the IRS Code.