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Investor Safety

Silva Tree investment opportunities have been carefully created to ensure maximum investor safety. All projects are backed by a trustee structure and complete, transparent paperwork is available for every aspect of every project. All our projects are designed as certified Carbon offset projects and, as such, are regulated by 3rd party verification bodies.

• Project safety nets in place
• Land held in trust
• Clear land and tree ownership
• Complete transparency

Citadel trustees

The Princess Project had been designed with maximum investor security in mind, employing a firm legal structure whereby land is kept in trust with UK based Citadel Trustees for the lifetime of the investment. Citadel’s highly experienced team has been providing trustee and stakeholder services for more than 25 years, handling in excess of £65 million/$130 million of client funds annually. Citadel´s Head Office is based in Camberley, Surrey, United Kingdom and the company has branch offices or associated companies in Spain, India, Thailand and China from which it services its international client base.

Project buffers

In accordance with the VCS and CCB carbon standards, project buffers must be kept aside to account for unforeseen events which may damage the project stock. A detailed project risk calculation is performed and buffers are maintained accordingly.

Silva Tree’s role

Unlike many timber investments which are created as an investment opportunity, Silva Tree projects are developed by us, for us. We invest our own money, time and staff into our projects and maintain 80% of the land ownership. This means that we are the biggest stakeholder in every project we develop, with the most to lose in the unlikely event of anything going wrong.