Community
Involvement
To stimulate community
involvement in protecting the rainforests and encourage others to plant
tropical hardwood trees, we are teaching the children in schools near
our tree farms about planting and caring for tropical hardwood trees and giving them seedlings
each year to take home
and plant. Our objective is to help the children and their families learn of
the importance of
preserving the rainforests and the value in planting and protecting trees. Our
hope is that they all will learn to love trees.
Steve with students in the Barú School on Campo Real
Foresters from the Costa Rican Forestry
Department have visited our tree farms and have highly praised our project. Our foresters
will give copies of their written reports to the Forestry Department at least twice each
year and the Forestry Department foresters will visit our plantations several times each
year. We have also set aside test plots to allow student groups from Costa Rican forestry
schools and universities to monitor the growth of all of our species, including several of
our species not previously grown in plantations.
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