Featured Projects
Brinkman y Asociados Reforestadores de Centro America S.A. (BARCA) is pleased to offer the BIRD farms for sale in Costa Rica. This is a showcase project sited by the FAO as an example of innovative forest restoration projects and is a combination of native forest protection, native species plantations and high quality teak creating a unique ecoplantation that creates habitat at the same time as financial returns. A unique set of adjacent farms comprised of 339 ha of pristine land of which 170 ha are planted with 115 ha in teak and 55 ha in native hard wood species.
Past Featured Project Panama
Reforestación con el Pueblo Indígena Kuna de Panamá
Como iniciativa incluida en su programa de compensación ambiental, Minera Panamá S.A. financió el establecimiento y mantenimiento de un proyecto de reforestación de 220 hectáreas en la Comarca Kuna de Madugandí. Este proyecto está beneficiando directamente a los 450 miembros de la comunidad de Ibedí, brindando empleo local, capacitación en silvicultura y viveros de árboles, nuevas oportunidades, asegurando la tierra contra invasiones ilegales y el potencial...
Ecoplantaciones BIRD
Brinkman y Asociados Reforestadores de Centro América S.A. (BARCA) se complace en ofrecer las fincas BIRD a la venta en Costa Rica. Este es un proyecto de exhibición ubicado por la FAO como un ejemplo de proyectos innovadores de restauración forestal y es una combinación de protección de bosques nativos, plantaciones de especies nativas y teca de alta calidad que crea una ecoplantación única que crea un hábitat al mismo tiempo que genera ganancias financieras. Un conjunto único de fincas...
Past Featured Project Panama
Reforestation with the Kuna Indigenous People of Panama
As an initiative included in its environmental compensation program, Minera Panama S.A. financed the establishment and maintenance of a 220 hectares reforestation project in the Comarca Kuna de Madugandí. This project is directly benefiting the 450 members of the community of Ibedí, providing local employment, silviculture and tree nursery training, new opportunities, securing land against illegal invasions and the potential of precious...
Past Featured Project Panama
BARCA and the Embera Wounaan in the Darien Province of Panama
In 2008 BARCA Panama began to support and work with the Embera Wounaan People in the Darien Gap. The Embera and Wounaan people are the third largest indigenous group in the Republic of Panamá, located in the eastern part of the country on the border with Colombia. The Embera Wounaan territory, established as a Comarca under...
Past Featured Project Costa Rica
Linking Costa Rica National Parks
One special project that BARCA is carrying out in Costa Rica towards the restoration and protection of Costa Rican Forests, is an alliance with the Fundacion Osa Conservacion (Osa Conservation). Our model is a three-part collaboration or “triangulation” model, in which the land owners provide the land (Osa Conservation); social and environmentally conscious investors raise the funds (EPR); and forestry companies with on-the-ground...