Embrapa is one of the 40 member organizations of the alliance that gathers national and international public and private institutions to work in an affirmative agenda towards forest recovery in the Amazon region. There has been a launch of a website for the Alliance for the Restoration of the Amazon, an initiative that gathers over 40 national and international public and private research and education organizations, as well as corporations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), with the mission of strengthening a restoration agenda in the Amazon regions and thus promote sustainability in the world's largest tropical rainforest and reinforce its protection network. The Alliance comprises a pact for the conservation of the Brazilian Amazon region and was launched in Belém, Pará, in January 2017. Embrapa Eastern Amazon is one of the signatories and founding member of the Alliance and, ever since, it has been working in partnerships to establish a technical and institutional cooperation framework to foster public policy and for actions to benefit the region. The researcher Joice Ferreira underscored that the Alliance is a large network that has the goal of encouraging, facilitating and promoting forest recovery in the Amazon. “It is a very important initiative as the need to reverse the degraded conditions of areas in the Amazon is well-acknowledged. In fact, it is a goal that has been established by laws like the National Vegetation Recovery Policy, published at the beginning of the year, after the Forest Code was reviewed”, she argues. The initiative has proposed several activities that go beyond conservationism, since it aims at reconciling different interest and integrating activities so as to broaden the scale and the efficiency of forest restoration, and give a boost to different links and agents in the forest production chain by generating business opportunities, jobs and income. Generating, systematizing, developing and spreading new knowledge and information on forest restoration, tropical forestry and agroforestry systems is also included in the alliance's targets. Learn more: http://aliancaamazonia.org.br Translation: Mariana Medeiros