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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.

A revolutionary novel opportunity or wishful thinking?

This wiki, run by the two sons of one of the early adapters (and ecological innovators) in the tropical hardwood plantation market, is dedicated to helping potential investors sort through the sense and non-sense that is out there.   » More about this wiki

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:

1. the incentive of “doing good”, the ethical incentive (green, sustainable and socially responsible);
2. the incentive of “making money” as easily, as safely and as quickly as possible, the profitability incentive;
3. 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.

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Companies & organizations

• Investment providers: AJP Ventures, ArBolivia, Bosque Puerto Carrillo, Bosques Naturales, 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 … further results
• Investment brokers: 360 Invest Group, 3D Investing, AJP Ventures, Ethical Investments (company), FIM Services Limited, Forestryinvestments, New Frontier Advisors, World Forest Investment
• Plantation companies: BARCA, Bosque Puerto Carrillo, Expomaderas, Finca Leola, Floresteca, Madera Viva, PanAmerican Woods, Planters, Samson Tropical Tree Farms, Thai Orchids
• Forestry product suppliers: Thai Orchids
• Special Interest Groups: Ethical Junction, UKSIF, Verified Carbon Standard
• Information resources: Forestry Investor, Investing Alternatively

Yield (estimates) and valuation

• Price per hectare
• Return on investments in forestry
• Wood prices

Trade

Buying or selling hardwood investments:

• For sale
• bosbouwbeleggingen.nl
• Investing Alternatively

Wood/tree types

Leafs of a teak tree

Robinia pseudoacacia blossoms

• 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)

Forestry

• Price per hectare
• Return on investments in forestry
• Teak syndrome
• Trees at harvest
• Wood prices

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, Wiebe Hedde Cazemier