OUR HISTORY
We have over 60 years of research experience in tropical forestry.
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
On November 30, 1995 the United States and Costa Rican governments approved a UNFCCC-AIJ (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change – Activities Implemented Jointly) Program proposed by Dr. Barres to investigate the offset of US CO2 emissions in tropical farm forests. By August of 1996, Reforest The Tropics was up and running full speed ahead, with Dr. Barres at the director’s wheel. Today, 25 years later, we manage more than 600 acres of research forests on 14 farms in Costa Rica for more than 100 US emitters.
Dr. Herster Barres
For over 60 years Dr. Herster Barres has been working in tropical silviculture. He worked for the Institute of Tropical Forestry in Puerto Rico as a research forester from 1961 to 1964. He was then assigned to the Center for Higher Education and Agricultural Research (CATIE) in Turrialba, Costa Rica as a FAO Forestry officer. It was there he taught and undertook research in testing tree species for wood production on farms. He founded the Latin American Tree Seed Bank in CATIE and planted trees on farms in the Turrialba Valley.
In 1993, at the request of the EPA, he founded and developed the present program, Reforest The Tropics. Shortly after, Reforest The Tropics gained approval in 1995 by the U.S. and Costa Rican governments.
Dr. Barres is a graduate of Yale University and the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. He has a doctorate from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland and is considered an expert in his field.
If you see Dr. Barres and his lovely wife, Miranda, out and about in Mystic, be sure to say hello.
Dr. Herster Barres
For over 60 years Dr. Herster Barres has been working in tropical silviculture. He worked for the Institute of Tropical Forestry in Puerto Rico as a research forester from 1961 to 1964. He was then assigned to the Center for Higher Education and Agricultural Research (CATIE) in Turrialba, Costa Rica as a FAO Forestry officer. It was there he taught and undertook research in testing tree species for wood production on farms. He founded the Latin American Tree Seed Bank in CATIE and planted trees on farms in the Turrialba Valley.
In 1993, at the request of the EPA, he founded and developed the present program, Reforest The Tropics. Shortly after, Reforest The Tropics gained approval in 1995 by the U.S. and Costa Rican governments.
Dr. Barres is a graduate of Yale University and the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. He has a doctorate from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland and is considered an expert in his field.
If you see Dr. Barres and his lovely wife, Miranda, out and about in Mystic, be sure to say hello.