I came across an organization by the name of Silva Tree recently and have been researching them quite a bit. The purpose of Silva Tree is to improve and protect the environment, and they do this by offering a number of environmental related investments. The entire global economy is still recovering from the recession, and a lot of people have lost most of their savings with the wrong investments lately. Investing in stocks is very likely to be profitable in the long term, but they can be very volatile over the short term. And leaving your money sitting in investment accounts is obviously very safe but the amount of interest you’ll get isn’t going to be all that significant unless you have a lot of money sitting there. But with Silva Tree, you have the opportunity to not only make very high returns, but also do something very good for the environment at the same time. That makes it very appealing for many different investors.
According to Silva Tree’s website, their main investment project on offer right now (the timber investment plan) offers a guaranteed 15.1% return per annum over the course of 20 years. Making a steady high return year after year with traditional investments (like the stock market or currencies) is often difficult, and they tend to fluctuate a lot. Anything like this normally sounds a little fishy and so you may be wondering how returns are guaranteed. It’s simple. With the timber investment offered by Silva Tree, you are buying a large area of land that has an average of around 660 trees per hectare. Returns on your investment are made by harvesting the land and selling timber to a pre-arranged buyer. A company called World Paulownia LLC has already agreed to pay 275 USD for each cubed meter of timber, but you may be able to do even better. With a 15% ROI each year, if you get a $32,500 investment in an area of land, that will turn into almost $150,000 after twenty years.
There are an impressive list of investments that Silva Tree has organized throughout its history. All of Silva Tree’s investments and projects are also designed to do some kind of good for either the environment or community (or both). As an example, one of Silva Tree’s projects was the Carbon Offset Forestry Project, which is no longer available - the purpose of it was to buy areas of forest in order to conserve and protect it from being cleared. There are two benefits of conserving rainforest: habitat for animals is preserved, and global warming is reduced. One of Silva Tree’s most successful investments, which is no longer available, is the Princess Project where they reforested 1500 hectares of land.
So it seems to me that if you have an environmental conscience and you want a safe, high return, long term investment, then Silva Tree is ideal. Investments from Silva Tree will give you solid returns every five years without you even having to monitor it, which cannot be said for things like currencies or property, which can easily go down as well as up. And you don’t need to be worried about the safety of your money either. Silva Tree is very highly regulated and is a member of the BBB as well as other organizations like Ethical Junction. Also, there are many members and investors of Silva Tree that have a history of producing results. There are three main directors of Silva Tree: Patrick Visser (business development), Maurice Sjerps (project management) and Keren Kats (project design and development).
