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About
PRORENA
Vision
& Mission | What we do
| Where we work | Who
we are | Project
organization
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Since
January 2001, the Center
for Tropical Forest Science (CTFS)
at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and
the Tropical
Resources Institute at the Yale School
of Forestry and Environmental Studies have jointly
led the Native Species Reforestation Project (PRORENA),
a highly collaborative research, education, and outreach
program aimed at developing viable strategies for
restoring diverse, native tropical forests. The work
of PRORENA is carried out with the active participation
of nearly two-dozen Latin and North American universities,
government agencies, private companies, NGOs, and
private individuals. |
Based
at STRI’s facilities in Panama City, PRORENA seeks
to develop solutions first in the Republic of Panama, and
then to extend its impact throughout the Neotropics and
across the worldwide network of CTFS plots.
Vision
and Mission
PRORENA’s
efforts are guided by the vision of establishing
diverse native forest cover across extensive areas of deforested
tropical lands, and demonstrating
that large-scale ecological restoration in the tropics is
technically feasible, socially attractive, and financially
viable.
PRORENA's
mission is the development of viable strategies for restoring
diverse forest cover to degraded tropical landscapes, the
dissemination of this information to the widest possible
range of interested parties, and the training of future
natural resource managers and scientists able to utilize
and build upon these efforts.
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