The Forests’ Bank is an innovative instrument to save native forests from clear-cutting.
Every year in Argentina alone 300,000 hectares of native forests are being cut down, burnt and turned into huge fields of agribusiness monocultures. The trend is rising, the remaining forest area is shrinking at a rate of 40 football fields per hour.
The market value of forest land is low. This is a problem because it makes it attractive for agro investors to buy a lot of land. But the Forest Bank turns this disadvantage into a benefit as it has creatively set up a platform making it possible for people all over the world to donate one hectare and save this piece of forest from the bulldozers. For forever.