The BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group and The Nature Conservancy established a unique collaboration on TIG’s one million-plus acre core timberland portfolio in the United States. Through the collaboration, TNC provides conservation advisory services to TIG in three key areas: biodiversity enhancement, climate mitigation, and permanent protection, with meaningful impact targets established for each.
This report describes the structure of the collaboration and provides detail on the tools being used to deliver meaningful impact, from acquisition pre-screens, to forest management interventions, to carbon project development.
A key component of the collaboration’s impact thesis is the belief that demonstrating the delivery of conservation and social impact while maintaining or enhancing economic value creates the opportunity to expand the innovations developed in the portfolio to millions of additional timberland acres across the U.S. Through this paper and subsequent research and impact reports TIG and TNC hope to meaningfully contribute to expansion of these practices across U.S. working forests.
