FAQS

To reduce investment risk, Forest Investment and ForestBond investors do not own individual trees. Rather, they own a pro rata portion of an entire tree plantation. Planting Empowerment includes a tree ...

Trees are assets that literally grow and appreciate. As saplings, they have little commercial value. In order for the trees to develop correctly and produce valuable timber value in the future, ...

Investors do not own individual trees, but rather a pro rata share of a timber plantation. This spreads your investment across a much larger number of trees. During the ...

Most forestry businesses in Latin America buy up large tracts of land to establish monoculture tree plantations. This practice displaces local inhabitants and encourages migratory deforestation by pushing them further into ...

As the trees planted in our plantations grow and reach merchantable size, we harvest, mill, and sell the wood. The majority of this revenue goes to the investor. Investor distributions coincide ...

About 30 years ago, the Darien province was mostly old-growth rainforest. When the area was opened for homesteading, this complex ecosystem, which had been developing for thousands of years, was drastically ...

We believe that buying land outright from rural Panamanians perpetuates the cycle of slash-and-burn development. When a farmer is displaced with a lump sum of cash, there is a strong temptation ...

No. We only lease parcels of their land that are already deforested and currently offer them little economic benefit. These lands were previously worked for growing crops or breeding cattle. Our ...

When a local partner enters into a leasing contract with Planting Empowerment, he signs a legally binding agreement. This grants PE exclusive land-use rights to the parcel for 25 years. This ...