Scientific Collaboration

The World Resources Institute estimates that each year some 13.7 million hectares of tropical forest are cut down. Whether for crops, fuelwood, or lumber, clearing decimates a forest and prompts severe erosion—with drastic consequences for biodiversity and local economic sustainability. 

But what if there were another way to harvest rainforests that promoted biodiversity and provided a sustainable income for local people? 

This is is precisely what the forest team at Tropic Ventures Education and Research Foundation, and The Institute of Ecotechnics are testing at Las Casas de la Selva. 

Comprehensive view of the Research Mission  
at Las Casas de la Selva, including new and continuing objectives in 2008