Sample Projects

BIRD

  • Status:  Mid-growth
  • Region:  Costa Rica
  • Investment Category:  $1-10 million
  • Investment Opportunity:  Closed
  • Project Type:  Teak plantation w/ native species & ecosystem rehabilitation
  • Project Concept:  Retail investors in Canada partnered with Brinkman to establish four plantations in Costa Rica planted between 1994 and 2000.  Growth performance has been very good and formed the basis for expanding tropical plantation successes.
a forest worker embraces a 13 year old teak tree

13-year-old teak

Pico Bonito

  • Status:  Phase I ongoing, phase II pending
  • Region:  Honduras
  • Investment Category:  $1-10 million
  • Investment Opportunity:  Private Placement through partner Ecologic.
  • Project Type:  Forest rehabilitation, REDD for eventual protection and partial harvest.
  • Project Concept:  Mixed native species
  • forest rehabilitation to create a buffer of an internationally acclaimed national park. Agroforestry, carbon, REDD, and eventual harvest provide a viable economic return.  Multiple NGOs and communities. Measurable social and environmental benefits.
a nursery worker in Honduras shows a native species plant

Honduras native species nursery

Stitching Terra Vitalis

  • Status:  New plantations thru Mid-growth
  • Region:  Costa Rica
  • Investment Category:  $10-30 million
  • Investment Opportunity:  Ongoing
  • Project Type:  Teak plantation
  • Project Concept:  Teak investment of individual hectares to retail investors in Netherlands.  The resulting Investment Trust has contracted Brinkman to create a turnkey plantation from site selection through to harvest.  Plantation has achieved superior growth with straight, high-quality trees.

 

measuring an 8 year old tree cut to thin a growing forest

8-yr-old teak thinning

Forests for Friends

  • Status:  Planted
  • Region:  Panama
  • Investment Category:  $10-30 million
  • Investment Opportunity:  Closed
  • Project Type:  Teak plantation
  • Project Concept:  Brinkman was invited to take over management when this Swiss-financed project was two years old.  Brinkman’s rehabilitation led the Chairman of Forests for Friends to write “we are still very happy with our partner BARCA” in their 2007 Annual Report.
a 16-month-old teak tree is already four times as tall as a man leaning against it

16-month-old teak

Indigenous Forest Management Partnership

  • Status:  Ongoing
  • Region:  Canada
  • Investment Category:  $1-10 million
  • Investment Opportunity:  Closed
  • Project Type:  Temperate forestry and complimentary resource industry business services
  • Project Concept:  What began as a management project has grown into a partnership with the Aboriginal community that involves management consulting, joint operations management, forestland investment due diligence and negotiation, and other resource industry economic development.  Our relationship with this and other indigenous communities in Canada serve as a template for similar relationships around the world.
a plane drops bright red fire retardant on a smoking fire

Firefighting on aboriginal forest land

A10000

  • Status:  Financing
  • Region:  Latin America
  • Investment Category:  $30-100 million
  • Investment Opportunity:  Private placement
  • Project Type:  Carbon/Teak plantation
  • Project Concept:  BFR will aggregate 5-10,000 ha of plantable land for investors of specified quality in specified regions, and will plant teak over multiple years.  BFR’s teak product projects high growth and intensive management for a high-quality product to replace the old-growth that will be in short supply at the time of harvest.  BFR’s product differs from the many low-cost, lower-yield teak plantations in the market today.  BFR can execute three of these projects through 2011.

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Teak seeds

Southeast Asia Forest Management

  • Status:  Pending final agreement
  • Region:  Southeast Asia
  • Investment Category:  $30-100 million
  • Investment Opportunity:  Closed
  • Project Type:  Large scale acacia plantation management and native forest sustainable management, alternative fiber supply consulting.
  • Project Concept:  Brinkman has been invited to sustainably manage, with some new planting, large areas of poorly performing plantations and well as the adjacent natural tropical forest in Southeast Asia.  Brinkman will be a contract manager.

Acacia mangium logs

Protected Land Rehabilitation

  • Status:  Feasibility
  • Region:  Central America
  • Investment Category:  $1-10 million
  • Investment Opportunity:  Private placement
  • Project Type:  Carbon & PES
  • Project Concept:  BFR and its partner affiliates arrange PES revenues to combine with timber to enable land use changes in targeted areas of Central America.
verdant green hills feature a site for native species restoration

Native species restoration site

Recovery and Rebuild

  • Status:  Feasibility
  • Region:  Central America
  • Investment Category:  $30-100 million
  • Investment Opportunity:  Private placement
  • Project Type:  Timber salvage and forest restoration, economic development
  • Project Concept:  Recovery of storm damaged timber, forest restoration, and partnership with local Indigenous community for social and economic development.  Joint with public financing.
a worker mills a large piece of timber

Local processing of timber