BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group, one of the world’s largest timberland investment managers, has closed its Latin American Reforestation Strategy at 1.24 billion dollars in commitments, marking the largest reforestation and restoration fund closed to date. Conservation International serves as Impact Adviser for the strategy’s environmental and social outcomes.
The strategy targets approximately 660,000 acres of degraded landscapes across Latin America, combining sustainable commercial reforestation with large-scale ecosystem conservation and restoration. Roughly half of that acreage will be protected and restored as native forests and habitats, while the remaining half will be planted as FSC-certified commercial tree farms. Nearly 29 million trees have already been planted across more than 64,000 acres in Brazil, with over 53,000 acres under conservation and native vegetation restoration underway on more than 50,000 acres. The strategy focuses in particular on Brazil’s Cerrado, one of the world’s most biodiverse and threatened ecosystems. At full deployment, the strategy is expected to support approximately 2,700 direct and indirect full-time equivalent jobs.
In April 2026, the strategy’s first carbon project, Brazil Cerrado 1, became the first project globally to be issued credits under Verra’s afforestation, reforestation, and revegetation methodology VM0047, which is approved under the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market’s Core Carbon Principles framework. The strategy is designed to generate millions of high-integrity removal carbon credits and has already finalized two landmark carbon removal credit agreements. Investors in the fund include BNDES, CAF, IFC, FMO, DEG, GenZero, New Zealand Superannuation Fund, NGS Super, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Tokio Marine, Vale, and others. BTG Pactual TIG manages 7.5 billion dollars in assets and commitments across 3 million acres throughout the United States and Latin America.
KEY QUOTES:
“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.”
Gerrity Lansing, Head, BTG Pactual TIG
“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.”
Mark Wishnie, Chief Sustainability Officer, BTG Pactual TIG
“This restoration effort represents the kind of forward-thinking approach that conservation needs. In a short time, its impacts already show the return of biodiversity, critical water resources and carbon-storing vegetation. At a time when the world needs to mobilize far more funding for nature, efforts like this help demonstrate what effective, scalable investment can look like.”
Deborah Spalding, Global Head of Nature Finance, Conservation International
