BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group (BTG Pactual TIG) announced that it has raised $1.24 billion in commitments at the close of fundraising for its Latin American Reforestation Strategy, making it the largest-known reforestation and restoration fund closed to date, according to the firm.
BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group (TIG), a subsidiary of Latin American investment bank BTG Pactual, is one of the world’s largest timberland managers, with over $7 billion in assets and commitments, and nearly 3 million acres under management across the U.S. and Latin America.
The firm’s Latin American billion reforestation and restoration strategy, which includes nature protection organization Conservation International as Impact Advisor, focuses on the conservation, restoration, and planting of deforested and degraded properties in selected regions in Latin America, including the Cerrado biome in Brazil, one of the world’s most biodiverse seasonally dry and threatened ecosystems which has seen a large proportion of land converted to other uses, such as cattle grazing.
The strategy aims to protect and restore more than 330,000 acres of natural forests in deforested landscapes, and to plant millions of trees in sustainably managed commercial tree farms on another 330,000 acres of previously deforested and degraded land.
To date, 29 million trees have been planted across the strategy on over 64,000 acres of degraded land in Brazil, while over 53,000 acres are under conservation, and restoration of native and biodiverse vegetation has been initiated on more than 50,000 acres. Additionally, BTG Pactual TIG said that more than 1,000 species of plants and animals have already been identified across the strategy. And over 400 miles of streams are under enhanced protection.
The strategy is also designed to generate millions of high-integrity removal carbon credits, with large-scale nature-based carbon removal credit agreements already signed with companies including Microsoft and Meta.
Mark Wishnie, Chief Sustainability Officer at BTG Pactual TIG, said:
“The strategy demonstrates how sustainable production can provide an enduring economic engine to power climate resilience, biodiversity conservation, and rural economies — all while producing renewable materials to supply the global bioeconomy. With over 50,000 acres already under restoration, our collaboration with Conservation International is delivering tangible outcomes that demonstrate the strategy’s potential for broad applicability.”
Investors participating in the strategy include Azarine, BNDES, CAF – Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean, German development finance institution DEG, Dutch entrepreneurial development bank FMO, GenZero, Green Spark Ventures, Hempel Foundation, International Finance Corporation (IFC), Impact Fund Denmark, the Mobilising Finance for Forests program, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, New Zealand Superannuation Fund, NGS Super, the San Francisco State University Foundation, Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co., Ltd., and Vale S.A.
Gerrity Lansing, Head of BTG Pactual TIG, said:
“We designed this strategy to demonstrate that restoration at landscape scales can deliver both environmentally and commercially. We are grateful to our investors and partners for their trust as we continue advancing a model that we believe can help shape the future of sustainable commercial forestry and large-scale ecosystem restoration.”
