State of Private Investment in Nature 2026 Case Study: BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group’s Latin American Reforestation Strategy
A Model for Large-Scale Reforestation and Restoration
View PublicationBTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group’s Latin American reforestation strategy is designed to align long-term financial returns with environmental and social outcomes while enabling investment in nature at an institutional scale. The strategy combines large-scale native ecosystem restoration and conservation with new, sustainable commercial tree farms, seeking to protect and enhance biodiversity, generate carbon credits, supply the growing bioeconomy, and support rural economic development alongside economic returns. Global environmental organization Conservation International serves as Impact Adviser to the strategy, providing input and advice to help strengthen environmental, climate, and social outcomes related to conservation and restoration activities.
At full scale, the strategy aims to conserve, restore, and reforest approximately 660,000 acres of degraded landscapes in Latin America, including in Brazil’s Cerrado, one of the most biodiverse seasonally dry ecosystems. It seeks to conserve and restore approximately 330,000 acres of native forests and other habitats, while planting millions of trees across approximately 330,000 additional acres as sustainably managed commercial tree farms, certified to Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)™ standards. At $1.24 billion, the strategy is one of the largest-known private markets timberland funds closed to date.
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This case study is an excerpt from the State of Private Investment in Nature 2026 report co-authored by Forest Trends’ Ecosystem Marketplace and The Nature Conservancy.
