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Central America Bamboo Investment

 Overview Key investment data
Sustainable timber in all its forms represents arguably one of the most
secure investments available and bamboo is perhaps the most exciting Invest from $15,000
of any timber investment.
Returns up to 895%
Bamboo is the fastest growing land plant on Earth and can reach its full
height in just one year rather than the 20 years required for traditional
timber. As a result, bamboo can create 20 times more timber per
Returns from year 1
hectare than other trees.
Reliable yearly income
The global timber trade exceeds $600bn per year and growing.
However, supply is dwindling as 30% is of timber is produced illegally
Returns guaranteed in years 1,2 and 3
and another 40% is from unsustainable sources. With its exceptional
green credentials and high productivity, bamboo is set to become the
Like for like buffer stock planted to ensure returns

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sustainable timber source of the future.
Bamboo
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Bamboo, and particularly our species of bamboo, has some Returns based on conservative, provable figures
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exceptional qualities. A higher tensile strength than steel yet it is able

to be used in ultra-soft clothing. Bamboo has many uses, but probably
Commodity with desirable qualities
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the most important characteristic is that it can be used as a substitute

for traditional timber in virtually any product at a lower cost, higher
quality and greater positive environmental impact. Market expected to be worth $20bn by 2015

As a result, bamboo’s demand around the world is well established Experienced management team
and rapidly growing. The world market is expected to quadruple to
$20bn within the next four years alone.
Unrivalled environmental benefits
On top of its economic opportunity, bamboo is simply the best source
of timber for the planet. It sequesters four times more carbon dioxide Non-correlated with Equities, Property or Bonds
than other timber and produces substantially more oxygen.

And as an investment: $45,000 invested is

forecast to return $402,000

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Why Invest in Bamboo?
“Average annual returns on timber...
have outstripped those from leading
global stock indices, property, oil and
gold for the past decade.”
The Economist magazine
“The global market for Bamboo
is expected to reach $20 billion
by 2015”
Ministry of Agriculture, India
Why Invest in Bamboo Over Other Forms of Forestry?
The global timber trade is well established and growing. It also enjoys
a long history of growth. According to Smart Money Magazine; “...real
prices for timber have steadily risen for more than 100 years - better
A 20 meter hardwood tree harvested for its timber can take 50 to 100 years to replace
performance than any other commodity..” The future also looks As a grass, cutting bamboo stimulates growth and it can reach 30m in just one year
bright for timber investment with the UN FAO forecasting that the
consumption of industrial wood will rise 60% over the next 25 years.
Unique characteristics give bamboo a diverse range of uses in many markets
Broad based and rapidly growing global demand
However, this increasing demand is set against dwindling
supply. Prevention of illegal logging and consumer avoidance of Sequesters 4 times more CO2 than standard trees and produces more Oxygen
unsustainable timber products means there will be substantial un- Zero waste plant – every part of it has value
met demand and corresponding price rises.
Fast pace of growth combined with global demand underpin exceptional returns
As an environmentally and fully sustainable, fast growing timber
source, bamboo’s share of the global timber trade is set to boom.
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 Conservative Assumptions
Volume of Bamboo Value of Bamboo
The returns forecast for this investment are the The returns are based upon a price per linear
product of two simple variables; how much metre for the bamboo of $1.35. However,
bamboo is grown and its price in the market research which we can provide separately
when harvested. shows that the current average price per linear
metre in the Central American market is in fact
First the assumptions for calculating the volume $4.29.
of bamboo grown per hectare;
Multiplying the volume of bamboo by its
Bamboo plants per h.a 400 value therefore creates the gross income per
Bamboo poles per plant (15 years) 72.8 (av.) hectare. In order to calculate the net returns
the cost of harvest (approx 5%) is deducted

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Harvestable length of each pole 15m before the Plantation Management Company’s
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performance fee of 30% which is the final

Total metres per h.a. (15) years 436,800 deduction.
In order to maximise productivity only 400 All returns shown are net of all expenses and
plants will be planted per hectare. With charges and fees.
optimum spacing, each bamboo plant or clump
has the space for approximately 62 poles or
culms, but based on conservative independant
data, we only assume each plant has 13 culms Standard Packages
of which up to 50% are harvested in any year. Investment Area Net Return
This equates to 6.5 culms per plant per year on
average. $15,000 0.25 h.a $101,634
Finally, the returns assume each culm has $25,000 0.5 h.a $202,069
15m of usable bamboo. This data represents
extremely conservative assumptions as $45,000 1 h.a $402,937
independantly provided by Dr. Montagnini from
the Yale School of Tropical Forestry.

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 EcoPlanet Bamboo Security
For every hectare of land purchased, we plant two
EcoPlanet Bamboo was founded as a Subsidiary of US hectares. Under the terms of the investment agreement
based EcoPlanet Group LLC in order to mange some of which is governed under US law, the revenue from the
the largest Bamboo plantations in Central America. The second hectare is set aside to make up investor returns
motivation was threefold; if the forecast returns are not achieved. This set aside
revenue will be used to cover under performance for any
• to provide a sustainable and commercially
reason including a fall in the price of bamboo, an inability
viable plantation of the world’s most
to produce as much bamboo as forecast or any Act of
valuable variety of Bamboo in an indigenous
God or Force Majeure.
environment close to its largest export market;
Additionally, unlike most forestry investment companies,
• to provide sustainable jobs and economic vitality
EcoPlanet has a performance based business model.
in a region where the company founders have
Most companies charge more for the land and make their

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long had a philanthropic interest;
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profit up front. With EcoPlanet, we take a performance

• to help combat deforestation and climate fee based on your returns so we make money when you
change by using one of the most make money. Equally, investing with us costs less up front
environmentally friendly reforestation and you therefore get;
plants in existence which is also the planets best
natural form of carbon sequestration.
twice the land, twice the plants and twice the
returns that you would get from other forestry
EcoPlanet Bamboo is a triple bottom line business investments.
focussed on people, planet and profits; returning
degraded tropical land to productive plantations and
providing clients with exceptional returns, both financially
and ecologically.

The EcoPlanet Bamboo team, with the substantial

backing of EcoPlanet, has unrivalled experience in
plantation management, agro-forestry, carbon resource
management, investment management and investor
relations along-side deep and broad ranging regional
experience. ag

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 Example Financial breakdown Next steps
This offer is limited to members of the Founder’s Program. Clients investing after the subscrip-
tion to the Founder’s Program is closed will pay the full, rather than discounted, investment Contact us to request the following available information;
price and be charged the basic, rather than discounted, performance fee.
• EcoPlanet Bamboo Investment Details
• Bamboo Market Analysis
Bamboo Investment Breakdown - Based on the investment of $45,000 (USD) - 1 hectare - 400 Plants
• Bamboo Productivity Report from Yale University, School of Tropical Forestry
Year Culms Per Plant Income From Investment Investment Yield
1 0 $3,150 7% • Return on Investment Calculator
2 0 $3,600 8%
3 0 $4,050 9%
4 1.3 $7,002 15.56%
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