About 14 million hectares of tropical rain forest have been lost each year-that's each year, every year-since 1980. El Bosque Nuevo is working hard to reverse this appalling trend. Our efforts prove that biology and economics can be combined in behalf of human and biological needs. Too often, they are represented as being at odds or at war.

The value of tropical rain forests can't be calculated in dollars or measured in biological terms. Their value is priceless on one hand as well as beyond full understanding on the other…but most experts can agree that losing rain forests to single-minded development is a devastating blight. The danger is, can humans survive if the rain forests don't?

Rain forests are intimately bound up with the larger, subtle, absolutely vital rhythms and cycles of life on Planet Earth. They are as fundamental to our collective lives at this scale as cell division is to our individual lives at that scale. We cannot do without the unique range and depth of flora and fauna they nourish in their natural state.

But that natural state is being torn apart by a short-term focus on profit that remains blind to the harmonious merging of economic desires with biological needs. There is a middle path that serves both priorities in a sustainable way. El Bosque Neuvo has found-and is moving with growing success up along-that ignored but sustainable "middle path."

We preserve or re-grow key areas of tropical rain forest in Costa Rica 1) to preserve both plant and animals species; 2) to sustain human cultures; 3) to rescue and repair blighted eco-systems; and 4) to meet human needs. El Bosque Nuevo is proof in action that profit and biology can be as harmonious and synergistic as we humans decide to make them.

Butterflies & The Butterfly Project

The work of El Bosque Nuevo and The Butterfly House in Chesterfield, MO have been profiled by the Fox Energy Team. Learn how conservatories are helping to preserve the rainforests in Costa Rica by watching the coverage at MyFox St. Louis.

Our Butterfly Project: Mariposario del Bosque Nuevo involves teaching the residents of our farm and other participants from the outlying countryside to sustainably grow and harvest butterfly pupae for sale to conservatories around the world.

In our Butterfly Project section, we provide pictures of butterflies from the Costa Rican Rainforest, information on butterflies, and a list of the butterfly pupae available.

In the Media

Read about El Bosque Nuevo in:

The New York Sun