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(Tropical) Hardwood Investments are tauted as being a near perfect green and socially responsible investment that'll make you (an incredible amount of) money while at the same time doing good for the world.
[edit] A revolutionary novel opportunity or wishful thinking?
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[edit] Are there good timber investments?
We have to distinguish between "traditional" timber investments characterized by big forestry companies doing large scale projects and "novel" (tropical) hardwood investments characterized by new -often- small companies doing small scale projects and -often- offering unregulated investment products to small investors.
The latter category is build on 3 pillars:
- the incentive of “doing good”, the ethical incentive (green, sustainable and socially responsible);
- the incentive of “making money” as easily, as safely and as quickly as possible, the profitability incentive;
- solid knowledge about (tropical) forestry.
These pillars are not always equally solid, but they should be for your conscience and money to be safe. Read Risks, weaknesses and problems of (tropical) hardwood investments before considering to invest in this sector.
This wiki tries answering the question whether these "novel" investment products stand a change if compared to traditional forestry investment opportunities.
[edit] I don't agree!
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[edit] Companies & organizations
- Investment providers: AJP Ventures, ArBolivia, Bosque Puerto Carrillo, Bosques Naturales, Costa Rica Invest, Eco Capital, EcoForests, EffecTeak, Ethical Forestry Investments, FIM Services Limited, Flor y Fauna, Floresteca, Forest Returns, ForestFinance, Forestales International, Forestryinvestments, Futuro Forestal, Global Forestry Investments, Global Green, Global Green Services, GoodWood, Green Capital, Greenplan, Greenwood Management, Groenewoud, Maderas Sostenibles, NIBO, Oxigen Investments, Pacific Teak, PanAmerican Woods, Panama Teak Forestry, Plantation Capital, Robinia invest, Samson Tropical Tree Farms, Sicirec Group, Silva Tree, Teakwood International, Tecal Nuevo, Terra Vitalis, and World Forest Investment
- Investment brokers: 360 Invest Group, 3D Investing, AJP Ventures, Eco Investments, Ethical Investments (company), FIM Services Limited, Forestryinvestments, New Frontier Advisors, and World Forest Investment
- Plantation companies: BARCA, Bosque Puerto Carrillo, Expomaderas, Finca Leola, Floresteca, Madera Viva, PanAmerican Woods, Planters, Samson Tropical Tree Farms, and Thai Orchids
- Forestry product suppliers: Thai Orchids
- Special Interest Groups: Ethical Junction, UKSIF, and Verified Carbon Standard
- Information resources: Forestry Investor, and Investing Alternatively
[edit] Yield (estimates) and valuation
[edit] Trade
Buying or selling hardwood investments:
[edit] Wood/tree types
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- Acacia
- Acacia mangium
- Agarwood (Aquilaria crassna)
- Almendro (Dipteryx oleifera)
- Amarillo (Terminalia Amazonia)
- Balsa (Ochroma pyramidale)
- Caoba (Mahogany) (Swietenia macrophylla)
- Cedro Espino (Bombacopsis quinata)
- Mahogany
- Robinia pseudoacacia (Robinia pseudoacacia)
- Swietenia macrophylla
- Swietenia mahagoni
- Teak (Tectona grandis)
- Zapatero (Hyeronima alchorneoides)
[edit] Forestry
[edit] People
Anton Greefhorst, David Vincent, Edwin Kielman, Hans Noomen, Hessel van Straten, Hugo Karel Krop, Hugo Krop, Huite Zijlstra, Jorrit Jorik van der Molen, Jos van Veen, Julio Cesar Centeno, Popko Peter van der Molen, Richard Huizinga, Rowan Rodrik van der Molen, Shaun Rumsey, and Wiebe Hedde Cazemier
