What Ethical Forestry Do.

Ethical Forstry gives you the chance to become involved in one of the fastest growing commodities of the last 100 years. Timber investments.

Ethical Forestry plant trees on a "for profit" basis on our plantations in Costa Rica. The land we buy is existing cattle grazing land. Once prepared, The land is planted, managed and cared for on behalf of the investor, choosing from a variety of species. Once all the investors trees have been harvested, the land is turned over to a perpetual forestry easement - forever protecting the forest from commercial harvest.

Ethical Forestry Ltd is a UK based brokerage setup to offer a unique timber investments that previously has only been available to large financial institutions.

Why? - Simple, Supply and Demand

Most of our timber is sold on the Costa Rican timber market. Costa Rica has recently had to begin importing hardwood due to a deficit in available timber. It has been estimated by the ONF (Costa Rican National Forestry Office) and the National Forestry Financing fund that by the year 2010 there will be a shortage of some 80% of required timber further driving prices up.

Teak, in particular is becoming increasingly difficult to source, Myanmar (formerly Burma) is currently one of the world’s largest exporters of Teak. However, the U.S. Senate recently passed an act forbidding the import of timber from Myanmar, further reducing the availability of Teak.

The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) estimates that each year about 13 million hectares of the world’s forests are lost due to deforestation. From 2000 to 2005, the net forest loss was 125 square miles per day.

The demand for tropical timber is increasing at an unsustainable rate. World consumption of tropical hardwoods has multiplied nearly 25 times in just the last four decades, to more than 100 billion board feet each year.

According to the ONF (Costa Rican National Forestry Office), teak prices have gone up 15% per annum between 2002 – 2007 with 2007 prices increasing by a staggering 67% due to the deficit.

Sustainable forestry, properly managed as a selectable and stable investment is more profitable than short term
forestry destruction.

Not only will your plantations secure you a very healthy return, but you will also be directly responsible for reducing the demand placed on our natural rainforests and increasing the size
of the rainforests in Costa Rica.

We only select areas suitable for planting on previously deforested land.

Less than 1% of the world’s demand for tropical hardwoods can be supplied by sustainable plantation forestry. The vast majority still comes from the natural rainforests and with more and more countries clamping down on illegal logging the availability of Tropical Hardwood is in rapid decline, driving prices up.