General information

15th March, 2011
FSC-Recertification
Our plantations have successfully passed the yearly control and been recertified by Forest Stewardship council (FSC).

11th November 2010
ecoLife, the Swiss Magazine for Sustainability, has published an article on The Tree Partner Company (ecoLife 5/10)
The article presents The Tree Partner Company and our business. You can read more about it here: Ecological wood-plantations in Panama (German only, PDF, 1,58 MB)

Portrait of Carol Franklin in Context, the magazine for professional business careers in Switzerland (context 10/2010)
You can read more about her here: Panama is so beautiful (German only, PDF, 888 KB)

22nd July 2010
„To protect tropical rain forests completely would be the best thing we could do for the climate and biodiversity - but it is unrealistic. A combination of protected areas and sustainable forestry, however, may be successful.“ (Lukas Denzler, „The Fate of the Tropical Rain Forests“, NZZ 21st July 2010, German only)
Tropical rain forests are disappearing despite the fact that their significance is widely known and efforts to protect them have been intensified since the Convention to Protect the Climate and Biodiversity in 1992. The scientist and author, Lukas Denzler, shows in an interesting article in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung of 21st July 2010 that the sustainable, FSC-certified timber production is an effective, long-term protection of the rainforests. The benefits of sustainable management lie in minimally intrusive interventions that harm the biodiversity as little as possible and in the preservation of the managed forests as the habitat of endangered animal and plant species. The main reasons for the lack of resonance to the sustainable management lie in the fact that global market prices for certified wood are currently too low and governmental institutions in tropical areas are too weak to enforce sustainable management.
We should like to thank Mr Denzler for this interesting article and are glad that we can contribute to the protection of the rainforest with our FSC-certified hardwood plantations – even if we realise that it is but a drop in the ocean.

16th December 2009
Our plantations have been certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) valid until November 2014 (FSC-certificate (PDF, 266 KB))

28th October, 2009
New Manager for The Tree Partner Company Ltd
By employing Jacqueline Jakob-Gallmann, the Board of Directors has implemented the most important finding of its risk analysis.

11th December 2008
New Board member Heiko Liedeker
Today the extraordinary General Assembly elected Heiko Liedeker unanimously to the Board of The Tree Partner Company AG. We are happy to have a forest ecologist of the highest standing on our leading team. Heiko was the executive director of Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) from 2001 to 2008, first in Oaxaca, Mexico, and then in Bonn, Germany.

2nd October 2008
PERPETUAL TRAVELLER – for Professional, Business and Independent Travellers
Our Guest writer Carol Franklin is proposing an alternative with an original solution, in this week's edition of Perpetual Traveller "Seeking Teak in Panama", which we trust you will enjoy to read and consider to take advantage of this unique possibility.
SEEKING TEAK IN PANAMA!

10th April, 2008
"Forest Investment: Managing the past and going forward"
Approximately 3,000 „tree partners“ of the former Swiss Prime Forestry AG faced a total loss of their investment in May, 2006. Then the rescue company „Forests for Friends Ltd“ took over the teak plantations in Panama . The managers have now established a further company and are setting up new sustainable plantations.
ECOreporter.de interviews the chairman of the Board, Carol Franklin, on finances, good and bad soil, plans, and revenue.
– Interview im ECOreporter.de-Sondermagazin of 10.4.2008 (PDF, 174 KB) only in German
– www.ecoreporter.de