Costa Rica's summit stance strong on reforestation

Toward the end of the 1960’s, a group of Costa Rican scientists, engineers, Environment Ministry officials and natural resource economists began to experiment with ways to reverse a decades-old problem: tropical forests were being stripped like old paint.
Farmers across the country chopped down trees to make way for crops and livestock, and loggers felled forests in order to stock wood supplies. Eventually, Costa Rica lost nearly two-thirds of its forest cover.