INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES

The Forest Products Commission offers investment opportunities for large-scale corporate investors, individual landowners (farmers) and Government agencies.

Corporate Investors

With world attention on the effects of climate change, investors are seeking solid investment opportunities that not only offer financial benefits but which can offset carbon emissions and provide significant landcare benefits.

The FPC offers its expertise to corporate investors to identify suitable opportunities to establish and manage commercial plantations in Western Australia. Drawing on decades of experience, the FPC is involved in the whole forest products value chain from breeding, to all aspects of growing, harvesting and marketing of the end product. Click here to learn more.

Government and Community based partnerships

The establishment of trees in the landscape is a viable land management option capable of achieving environmental, social and economic benefits.

The FPC has formed partnerships with Government agencies and the community via regional natural resource management (NRM) groups to establish and manage plantations integrated into the rural landscape.

A major initiative is the $64 million joint Australian and Western Australian Governments funded Strategic Tree Farming Project (STF) under the National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality (NAP). The project, the largest publicly funded tree planting project in Australia, focuses on the targeted establishment of trees (maritime pine, mixed Eucalypts for sawlogs and sandalwood) in priority NRM catchments in the medium to low rainfall areas. The aim is to protect biodiversity, manage salinity and rising water tables and provide a resource to supply new and emerging timber based industries.

Land Owners

Land owners are important partners in FPC’s tree planting projects and contribute to their strategic implementation.

In 2003 FPC launched its infinitree™ brand to promote the concept of tree farming in lower rainfall areas and its environmental, social and economic benefits to farmers and the broader community. The STF Project (commencing 2005 and funded to 2008) reflects the principles of Infinitree in promoting the adoption and integration of trees into the agricultural landscape and diversifying on-farm land use and income.

FPC’s current focus is the successful implementation of the current STF Project whilst maintaining a strategic industry development and NRM based vision beyond 2008. Click here for more information.