Working with community leaders to make the conservation of the forest more attractive than its destruction. Amigos de Iracambi is a non profit, 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. That is why we work in the fields of research, reforestation, agroforestry systems and environmental education.