Ethical-Times-Spring-Newsletter-2012-v3

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Ethical Times
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Spring newsletter 2012
this issue...
2012 Harvests commence!
2012 Harvests
As the 2012 harvests commence, we witness and
reporton the harvesting process from start to
finish.
We demonstrate the process forharvesting
investors trees
What makes a good tree?
Ignacio Rodríguez Varela explains howgrowing
trees correctly makes all thedifference to an
investors returns
Investing for their future
Why investing for the future ofyour family maybe
one of the mostimportant decisions of your life
Actual size Melina poster
See what full size Melina actuallylooks like
At this time of year, our plantations bustle into
lifeas the harvesting season begins. Teams of
workersare busy surveying all areas of our
plantations to beharvested, compiling foresters
reports, taking GPSpoints and updating our tree
management database.Inside you can witness a
typical 4th year harvest,from selecting the
trees to harvesting.
has been developed to service our new plantations
inthis area, such as the recently acquired 4
million squaremetre Chimurria plantation, which
is currently beingcleared for field planting. A
full report on this plantationand our other new
plantations will be available in our upand
coming newsletters.
San Carlos Special Report
We share our plans for ourCosta Rican research
anddevelopment centre
Sitting next to this new centre, we are also
building anew house for the caretaker and their
family. The houseis being built next to the
protected forest that sits on thissite, ensuring
the outlook is pleasant and the environmentis
conducive to good family life. Many animals live
withinthis forest, such as Howler monkeys,
parrots and Toucans.Careful consideration is
always given to the location ofour caretaker
houses for the benefit of the plantationand the
people who live their. Our Brasilia plantation
hasa particularly wonderful caretaker house that
sits on ahill overlooking the lush plantation,
wild forest and river.We hope you enjoy this
newsletter and always appreciateyour feedback
and comments.
Also in this edition you can read a report by
EthicalForestrys Professor Ignacio Rodríguez
Varela on whatmakes a plus tree. We often get
asked questions on howwe create healthy
plantation trees. Ignacio explains whatto look
for and the processes we undertake to ensure
thatthe trees we grow are of a superior grade.
What happens afteryou retire?
Have you made adequate plans foryour retirement?
We are currently making some big changes to our
25 acreSan Carlos timber mill site. Robert Brown
is overseeing thedevelopment of the new tree
growth centre, which willsupply 25,000 new trees
per week for field planting whenrunning at full
production. This new centre includes acompost
and substrate production facility,
germinationand propagation centre, transplanting
and Growing onarea, and a Hardening off and
dispatch area. This facility
Meet an investor...
Kevin Dursley explains why heinvested with
Ethical Forestry
Thank you.
Ethical Forestry Ltd, 80 Holdenhurst Road,
Bournemouth, Dorset, BH8 8AQ telephone [phone]
30 10 email enquiries_at_ethicalforestry.com
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2012 Harvests Commence
As this years harvests get underway, we explain
the stepby step process from felling to
receiving funds
Step 1 Authorising your harvest
Before we harvest any investors trees, we send
them a harvest report outlining the proposed
courseof action. The report, written on site by
our forestry engineers, recommends the trees to
be harvested.The strongest trees are selected to
continue growing and the weaker ones selected for
harvesting.
Step 2 Harvesting
Once the harvest report has been approved, the
engineers survey the site, take GPS (Global
PositioningSystem) points for the trees being
harvested and mark the trees to be felled with a
cross. The engineersthen harvest the selected
trees. This process will be repeated throughout
the investment until the finalharvest, when all
of the remaining trees are harvested.
Step 3 Receiving your funds
Confirmation of the harvest is sent to you along
with the proceeds of the harvest.
1 GPS points are taken for each tree to be
harvested and registered on our tree management
database
2 Trees to be harvested are marked with a cross
3 Robert Brown discusses the harvest with Ethical
Forestry directors Steven Greenaway and Paul
Laver
4 Under the supervision of forestry engineer
Ignacio Rodríguez Varela, the felling of the
trees is discussed
5 The harvest commences
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Creating the perfect trees
Ignacio Rodríguez Varela explains what to look
for in a correctly growing tree.
A correctly managed Ethical Forestry
plantationshows trees with straight trunks, the
correct
An example of a poor plantation not managedby
Ethical Forestry. Incorrect spacing, trunk
branch angle and efficient canopy proportion.
bifurcation and poor pruning will severely
reducethe value of these trees
Fact file
When pruning, careful consideration is given
tohow each cut will impact on the individual
tree.
Fungicide is applied to each pruning mark toseal
heal.
Name Ignacio Rodríguez Varela
The seeds that we select produce trees that are
cylindrical, not conical. It is anatural
phenomenon that trees are conical cylindrical,
tapering as they gettaller. Our selected seeds
create trees that are more biased to a
cylindrical shape,creating a higher volume of
wood.
Bachelors Degree in Forestry Sciences with
concentration in ForestryManagement, giving him
the title of Forestry Engineer.
Masters Degree in Business Administration.Profess
or in Forestry Management.
Focusing the growth energy of the tree is a
crucial part of the whole process. Weavoid
bifurcation, where the trunk splits, creating a
fork, making the trees energyfocus on growing
the two trunks that produce narrower, less
valuable timber. Bynot splitting, the trunk
continues to amass more value by containing the
timbermass in one area. Bifurcation is generally
caused by inferior grade seeds beingused, which
we avoid by only using certified seeds from
verified sources.
Professor in GIS (Geographical Information
Systems) Information basedon geographical/demogra
phic/topography).
To the untrained eye, a plantation may look like
it is flourishing but oncloser inspection all
may not be what it seems. Ignacio explains
ourthorough approach to ensure our plantations
are thriving.
Ask most people what a perfect tree looks like
and they will probably describeone that
resembles the shape of a stem of broccoli. A
thick, short trunk with lotsof branches and a
big, bulbous canopy. For a tree that has grown
wild, such asan English Oak, this is probably a
good shape. A good plantation tree is
totallydifferent as it is continually pruned and
shaped to create a tree that will yield ahigh
amount of timber.
We create trees with a small canopy, this way the
energy is going into the verticaldevelopment of
the tree and not spreading like a traditional
tree. We also avoidspiralling in the grain, as
spiralling produces poor grade timber, which we
avoidby seed (genetics) and site selection. Our
trees do not have buttresses (due tothe seed
genetics), as buttresses take the energy away
from the core growth areas.Environment refers to
the careful selection of the plantation, where we
considermany aspects such as soil selection,
topographic data and precipitation. Careand
management play a crucial role in this part of
the equation. Our on sitecaretakers and forestry
engineers tend to our trees on a daily basis.
Throughoutthe growth and pruning process, we
encourage healthy healing using the
bestsilviculture practises. Every time we prune
a branch, we apply a fungicide toward off
infection. This is a proprietary mixture, the
formula for which we keepclosely guarded. This
mixture is applied after every pruning, sealing
and healingthe pruning marks.
At Ethical Forestry, we use the formula Genotype
Environment Phenotypeto create successful
trees and therefore highly productive
plantations.
Genotype refers to the genetic potential of the
organism, i.e, the tree. We haveto consider many
different aspects of a trees development to
ensure it growscorrectly. I refer to a correctly
growing tree as a Plus Tree. Plus Trees
will have anopen branch angle, which will mean
less knots in the finished timber. It will
alsohave thin branches, which means the energy
is going into the vertical growth ofthe tree and
not the branches.
For more information on our ethical investments
or to speak with an advisor, please call us free
on 0800 075 30 10 or visit www.ethicalforestry.com

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Melina poster now available
Packed with facts about global forestry - Order
your copy now, orsend to a friend.
If you are fortunate enough to have held one of
ourmature Melina discs samples, you will
appreciate justhow big and heavy they are.
Intrigued visitors alwayscount the rings to see
how old the tree was whenfelled and amazed at
the size. To share this experience,we have
produced a fold out poster that has an
actualsized disc on it so you can appreciate
just how fastthese trees grow, along with many
interesting industryfacts. If you would like a
copy or would like to send oneto a friend,
please contact our office.
To order a Melina Poster call0800 075 30 10 or
email usposter_at_ethicalforestry.com
Property Investor Show
Due to the popularity of our stand at the last
Property Investor Show, we areexhibiting again.
Investors, new investors, IFAs and agents are
all invited to visit us.On this stand we will
have some slices of mature Melina, which promise
to stealthe show. Mark Finn states, These
Melina discs really do offer a wow factor
foranyone fortunate to see one. We invite anyone
to pick one up to experience justhow heavy they
are and to count the rings that demonstrate how
old they are.
We are exhibiting at the PropertyInvestor Show
at Londons EXCELduring April 19th-20th.
For more information on our ethical investments
or to speak with an advisor, please call us free
on 0800 075 30 10 or visit www.ethicalforestry.com

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Costa Rica Diary
by Robert Brown
Big plans get underway forour Costa Rican
research anddevelopment centre
Our San Carlos site in Costa Rica is currently
undergoing significant
redevelopment to facilitate our ever growing
needs. Robert Brown is
currently overseeing the development of this new
nursery facility that
will service the region with saplings. The site
is comprised of a compost
development and soil mixing centre and multiple
nurseries. This new
growth centre will have 275,000 new trees in
various stages of growth whenfully operational,
capable of supplying 25,000 trees per week for
planting.The facility has been developed to
service our new plantations for theregion, which
we will be revealing in future newsletters.
Other plans for the siteinclude new drying
kilnsand a biomass facility
for the development of ecological fuel sources
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1 High grade, certified Melina seeds
2 Surveying a test seed bed growing Melina
3 Robert Brown explains the process for
substrate production using our
in-house, premium grade compostthat is used for
growing all of
our seedlings
4 A mist nozzle for fertigation (the process of
adding fertiliser
to water during irrigation)
5 Discussing the plans for the site
6 Melina saplings within one of the new
greenhouses
plings per week
At full production, this site will produce
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From seedto planting
Stage 1 Compost and
substrate production
Stage 2 Germinationand propagation
Stage 3 Transplanting
From reusable pot in frame toecologically
friendly, fieldready containers
Stage 4 Growing On area Thesaplings grow
into young trees
Stage 5 Harding Off areaThe young trees
acclimatiseto plantation conditions
Stage 6 Dispatch to our
plantations for field planting
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7 Toucans dwell in the
protected forest withinour grounds
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Howler monkeys are a
regular sight withinthis forest
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Logs await catagorisation
on the patio
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The Bananaquit is a
common visitor
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What happens after you retire?
As the average life expectancy continues to rise,
it raises the
question, Have I reinvested enough of my pension
for the future?
After you retire - providing for upcoming
expenses?
With the average UK life expectancy rising to 78
for males and 82 for females,most newly retired
people are now finding they have many extra years
toenjoy themselves. Apart from day-to-day living
expenses, the most commonretirement expenditure
is travelling, hobbies such as gardening, fishing
andgolf, new work projects, home renovations and
spending quality time with theirfamily and
friends.
In addition to the fun things in life, which all
cost money, many people arefinding they have to
give careful consideration to more serious
matters, suchas how to pay for future care home
and funeral expenses. The average priceof a
single room in a private residential home in
Britain now costs an averageof 25,953 a year.
With a typical single pensioner on an annual
income of just13,998 it leaves a shortfall of
11,965 a year.
The investment is fully transferable, so itcan
be bequeathed to any beneficiary
the family. This can potentially put considerable
financial strain on relatives andquickly drain
any inheritance.
After speaking to their IFA, many of our
investors consider using part of theirannuity
tax-free lump sum on retiring to purchase one of
our investments. Thiscreates a reliable income
stream to support them during this stage of their
life
In addition to care home nursing home costs,
the cost of dieing is also risingyear-on-year
with the average associated costs now being above
7,000. Lack of
planning may lead to these expenses being funded
from the family home or by and gives them
peace of mind that help for future expenses are
catered for.
An Investors Story
If you would also like to appear inAn Investors
Story, please contactpeter.bowdler_at_ethicalforesty
.com
Written by Kevin Dursley
Kevin Dursley explains why he invested with
Ethical Forestry

At 52 I started to realise that I hadnt got
anything in place for myretirement or pension. I
searched endlessly through countlessmoney
magazines looking for the right investment for
me. EthicalForestry captured my attention
straight away and seemed to tick allthe boxes. I
have a real passion and concern for the
environment,so its important to me to be
involved with looking after therainforests and
wildlife of the world. The more I looked into
timberinvestments, the more enthusiastic I
became about investing.
I contacted Ethical Forestry who arranged for one
of their team tovisit me. They talked me through
the investment process step-by-step. I didnt
feel pressurised, nothing was too much trouble
andI felt completely at ease. The returns seemed
very promising fora low risk investment and as I
had a considerable sum to invest,I needed to
know and feel that I was doing the right thing.
I have now been with Ethical Forestry for a year
and Im extremelypleased with the after sales
service. You will find that there is alwaysa
representative at the other end of the phone to
satisfy your needsand any questions you might
have.
I am looking forward to making future investments
each yearbecause the potential is vast. I would
also like to thank the EthicalForestry team here
and in Costa Rica for all their hard work and
forlooking after all of our investments, they
are doing a great job!

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Financial Services Authority and does not offer
any advice about any regulated or unregulated
investments, either within this newsletter or
elsewhere. Please consult an Independent
Financial Advisor prior to making any decision to
buy our products.Our products are not regulated
investments. Their value may rise or fall and no
guarantees of future performance in respect of
income or capital growth are given either
expressly or by implication, and you may not get
back the full amount you pay for them. Ethical
Forestry shall not be heldliable to anyone for
any errors, omissions or inaccuracies within this
newsletter under any circumstances or for any
loss or damage which may arise from the use of
any of the information or detail contained
herein.
For more information on our ethical investments
or to speak with an advisor, please call us free
on 0800 075 30 10 or visit www.ethicalforestry.com