forest seeds

I have not used these resources for more than 6 years...but here it is in case it is of any use: You used to be able to get seeds for trees via EARTH, the tropical-culture agricultural school in Costa Rica [ http://www.earth.ac.cr ], and also via the Latin America Seed Bank in Costa Rica - though they may now have an office in Honduras, too [ http://www.catie.ac.cr ]; this link may or may not work]. ECHO-Net may have tree seeds for your region. I am not sure what they specialize in now, but I think you used to be able to get them for tropical locales [ http://www.echonet.org ]. SETROS in Singuatepeque, Honduras may still have access and supply seeds of interest to you [ http://www.setros.com ], though I am not sure if they still have rain/tropic offerings; I believe there is a competitor, also in Singuatepeque, but I cannot recall their name (and I do not believe either outfit is officially tied to the Honduran National School of Forestry Science [ESNACIFOR], which is in the same city). Seeds in Honduras are sometimes identified as "Zamorano", but I am not sure how they are distributed - though they are surely tied to the famous agricultural institute of the same name [ http://www.zamorano.edu ]. Colombia and Ecuador have huge outfits, but I could not locate anything when I needed it since the minimum order was huge. Profafor Ecuador used to have starter kits and such, but I do not know if they still offer this [ http://www.profafor.com ]. There are many outfits in Brazil, but I think there might now be a few restrictions on what can go out of Brazil, or else outfits often just specialize in seeds for rare or endangered trees. There are several places in Hawaii and Florida, but as I recall they did not ship to Honduras (nor, I assume, Nicaragua). There is also EcoLOGIC, but there map doesn't indicate they have made it south of Honduras [ http://www.ecologic.org/en/where-we-work ], so they may or ay not be of use -- but they have contacts since I have heard or people in Guatemala and Honduras who were assisted by them. A friend in Honduras received seeds from this outfit, and I notice that there is now an entry for Nicaragua (though no actual website), so they might prove useful [ http://www.treesftf.org/projects.htm ]. Whenever we needed seeds on short notice we just asked a friend in the U.S. to ship to us, and as long as the package was small and not labeled "seeds", we never had a problem.

I had posted the above after already 2 weeks of search. One more week passed now, and I'm still searching.. What is all this talk about saving forest and climate and water, if the very least, minimum, necessary, essencial, inexpensive thing is not even to be found. We're not talking about toxins or rocket launchers or dangerous drugs here! How much harm can one do with a local forest seed? Why is it kept off the street? Or is it that we're all so busy prosing away, that we forgot about the real world? Something deeply disfunctional here.