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Futuro Forestal S.A. offers innovative and first class forestry services.  Since it's foundation in 1994 the company is developing unique concepts of reforestation that produce fine tropical hardwoods of high value, carbon credits and non-timber forest products within a sustainable and sane environment. Reconstructing tropical forests we can provide very secure and profitable investment opportunities to our clients.  Our team comprises a diverse and growing professional experience, opening new ways for the creation of new tropical forests every day. Managers Andreas Eke and his Panamanian wife Iliana Armien are offering their worldwide investors a unique opportunity to own a forest, to invest in a high yield product with IRR of 8 to 12 % and to help improve ecological and social development. For 48,000 US $ investors receive 2 ha (4,94 Acre) of “WoodStockInvest titled forest land registered in Panama.

So far fine tropical timber has come out of the primary rainforest or from monoculture plantations. The Futuro Forestal Way is based on the combination of high productivity and biodiversity. Futuro Forestal reforestation fields are plantations unknown in the tropics – they are similar to nature-like multicultural forests in Europe. In addition to effective wood production the forest offers habitat to many native animals and plants protects and enriches the soil, stores and filters water and has a positive influence on the world climate. With seven primarily native species (in addition to secondary forest growth) including well known species such as coco bolo (rosewood), Mahogany, Teak, Cedro Espino, Amarillo and other commercially popular species Futuro Forestal has an ideal portfolio for existing commercial markets (both locally and in the export markets).
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Most of the investors US and German investors, with the rest scattered all over the globe many of them are science oriented by profession. Through intense Forest management and service Futuro Forestal wants to ensure high market prices in the future. Already the trees tend to grow a little faster than conservative projections indicate, with ball park Internal Rate of returns expected to be in the range of 8% to 12% annually, based on science driven assumptions and sustainable harvesting on 25 year rotations. Already after ten to twelve years the first trees are being taken out to be put on the market. Further harvesting follows in the years 15, 18, 22 and 25. From year 15 the next generation is already in line through natural seed spread. There is a much lower investment required for the following cycle. Therefore “WoodStockInvest” is a foundation for many generations of forest usage and long-term profits. In predictions and research Futuro Forestal works closely with scientific institutions such as the University of Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.

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There are several dozen reforestation companies on the market, but the program Futuro Forestal is very unique and their outstanding results brought them a rating as “Best Forest Investment program in Latin America” http://www.sicirec.org/en/UKratingtable.html)

Futuro Forestal also was the first company in Panama to be certified by the FSC the Forest Stewardship Council. Only a few reforestation projects in Panama have this seal. The FSC is an independent, membership-based organization that brings people together to promote responsible management of the world's forests through developing standards, a certification system and trademark recognition. 

Investors typically invest $40,000 or more, and receive direct title of the real estate, a turn-key package of the trees for 25 years that prepays 100% of everything to do with the trees for 25 years, all managed by the company.  But also it is possible to invest just in 1 ha of forest land for a price of  19,500 US $ . The land that Futuro Forestal has chosen for the reforestation was originally, many decades ago covered with tropical rainforest. These forests were cut, agriculturally used for a short while and then transformed into cattle fields – now they are retransformed into forests thanks to Futuro Forestal’s acre “WoodStockInvest”.

The Reforestation and Service company is based in Las Lajas in the Province of Chiriqui, an hour before David.  Since its foundation in 1994 Futuro Forestal has reforested more than 1,500
acres in the region. 

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