Building upon our previous Consultancy work on successful agricultural projects; Green Oil Plantations (Australia) and SCS Farmland (Argentina), our Consultancy division has spent the last six months working with sustainable forestry specialist,Pachamama Forest (Colombia).

Our role, working with the project principal, has been to establish a suitable first-investment growth mechanism resulting in the planned launch in March 2012 of an innovative first: A Biodiversity Protection and Sustainable Timber Bond.

Intelligent Partnership‘s Consultancy division has been deeply involved in every step of the process to create this investment including; business planning, competitor and comparable analysis, product definition, product structuring, due diligence, market readiness and the sales & marketing materials.

Four plantations are wholly owned by Pachamama Forest in the Meta region of Colombia. These have stunning growth characteristics and offer excellent investor security through a UK Trustee ownership scheme with permissions granted by the FSA. Colombia is not only the second-most biodiverse country in the world, but, according to the World Bank now ranked a surprising 5th in the world for investor security – after a decade of internal reforms and the combating of the previous drug problems associated with this beautiful country.

The Bond raise is to fund the nursery, planting and maintenance of sustainable hardwood on existing, owned plantation land and to protect or restore the rich biodiversity to be found in the region. Biodiversity protection and restoration is at the heart of what Pachamama is about, with investors getting an excellent 170% return on their investment through sales of associated sustainable hardwood timber over a 12 year period.

Interest is now being sought from third parties who wish to get involved with this project in which our Consultancy division will play a continuing advisory role.