Dr. Richard St. Barbe-Baker

Dr. Richard St. Barbe Baker explains how he became a Baha’i in 1921 and met Shoghi Effendi in 1929. His involvement with trees also started in 1921 while he was in Cambridge, England. He was instrumental in the creation of the British Forestry Commission in 1922. He presents interesting data on our scientific needs for trees, their utilization in paper industry, and our need for re-forestation. Drawing on his worldwide experience he provides an example a tree-planting educational program that he initiated in 1920’s in Haifa and Akka areas of the present day Israel.