Carola Paul

Thanks to its exemplary management the forest finance offered forests in Panama, to explore the practical implementation and effect of ecological policies here", explains forestry engineer Carola Paul. Studies on the spreading mechanisms of plant species found in the understory showed that 90 percent of these species are spread by animals. This corresponds to the distribution structure of natural ecosystems, and shows that the forest finance stocks represent an accepted Habitat for animals and therefore positively affect biodiversity. This success is due the fact that the Bonn-based enterprise when the stocks of existing trees and forest residues into the plantations. In addition a total of around 15 percent unoccupied nature forest created. wood plantations offer various possibilities for the protection of biodiversity.

The forest finance shows that such management measures can be practically implemented and both ecological and economic benefits can deliver,"sums up Paul in their award-winning study. A special importance in biodiversity conservation again burned pastures, because usually the types on the leached soils reduce gradually. The newly created mixed forests, however, creating refuges for many species and hiking between the natural forests. Extent to which biodiversity supports forestry plantations, however strongly depends on its management. The international organizations FAO and ITTO have formulated guidelines for the protection of biodiversity in forest plantations. These include among others the native rather than exotic species not in large-scale monoculture, but how are grown at forest finance in mixed culture remain the most species-rich forest residue. About forest finance: Forest finance specialises on sustainable tropical forest afforestation investments that combine a lucrative return on investment with environmental and social sustainability.

The company with the FSC global as the world's first German partner Award "in financial services awarded. Through the reforestation, protected rain forests and species-rich mixed forests created. In addition, CO2 is bound for decades. Interested parties can choose between various products of sustainable tropical forest management: at the BaumSparVertrag monthly based on a tropical tree is planted from 33 euros. The minimum deposit period is 4 to 9.5 percent return a year, the yield forecast, see