Dig deeper into the issues

Here you will find more specific information about the ideas and issues that inform our approach to sustainable forestry.

• A CNN article that examines the re-growth of secondary forest in Panama, and the ongoing conflict between economic development and deforestation.

Rainforest Clash in Panama Signals Larger Debate 

• By piecing together a complex ecological puzzle, biologist Willie Smits has found a way to re-grow clearcut rainforest in Borneo, saving local orangutans -- and creating a thrilling blueprint for restoring fragile ecosystems.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vfuCPFb8wk&feature=channel 

• NY Times article that investigates the potential carbon value of second growth forest

New Jungles Prompt a Debate on Rain Forests 

• A report on possible market solutions to deforestation. From Yale Environment 360, a publication of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies

As Rainforests Disappear, A Market Solution Emerges 

• Regarding the economic viability of carbon ranching in the indigenous community of Ipeti-Embera

Indigenous livelihoods in Eastern Panama 

The fate of the tropical forest: Carbon or cattle? 

• A graduate thesis by a Peace Corps Panama volunteer that studies Ipeti-Embera's efforts to grow and sell Teak in the Panamanian domestic market.

Feasibility of Teak Productions for Smallholders in Eastern Panama 

Growth equations and rotation ages of ten native tree species in mixed and pure plantations in the humid neotropics 

Growth in pure and mixed plantations of tree species used in reforesting rural areas of the humid region of Costa Rica, Central America 

• Deforestation imposes on the world's economy a much higher cost than the credit crunch, as an EU-commissioned report argues

Nature loss 'dwarfs bank crisis' 

The economics of ecosystems and biodiversity 

• The beneficial effects of carbon payments on poverty and sustainability of agricultural systems explained in this study

Agricultural Carbon Sequestration, Poverty and Sustainability