Saving forests, changing lives
Brazil's Atlantic Rainforest is of the world's top five biodiversity hotspots, where Iracambi dedicates its work to saving forests and changing lives.
A little bit about us. We're a non-profit organization, Amigos de Iracambi, supporting a Research Center which is based on a sustainable forest farm where we can put our ideas to work. We're in the buffer zone of the Serra do Brigadeiro State Park in the mountains of southeastern Brazil. It's an area of extraordinary beauty, abundant water and exceptional biodiversity, and it's home to the world's largest population of the highly endangered northern muriqui monkey - known as the Wooly Spider Monkey.
The name Iracambi comes from the Tupi Indian words "ira" (honey) and "cambi" (milk): our vision is to see this beautiful land of milk and honey restored, with thriving communities living sustainably in a thriving landscape. We're doing this through our research, our programs and our projects, working with the community to make the conservation of the rainforest more attractive than its destruction.
It's a big job and our strategy is to create unusual partnerships - college lecturers with local schoolkids, international volunteers with farm families. Every year we welcome dozens of people of all ages and backgrounds, volunteers, researchers, interns, and professionals from five continents who spend anything from one to six months sharing their skills with us and learning new ones.
Check out our programs for volunteers, students and interns and researchers.
Watch our movies on YouTube, see us on Google Earth, or see our web based map here.
