Operations started in Tanzania in October 2009. An administrative office is operational in Iringa from where the establishment of the Lukosi Plantation, close to Magome in the Kilolo district, is overseen. Field staff are resident either on the plantation or in the villages close to the plantation. By the end of March 2011, we had planted over 1’500ha to pine and eucalypt. Road construction…

In Mozambique, The New Forests Company has partnered up with a local non-governmental agency called the Malonda Foundation and began operations on its first plantation in Niassa province, in the northwest of the country in late 2007. The company, which has signed a deal with the Malonda Foundation for 40,000 hectares, has planted from 2007 until March 2011 just over 3,200 hectares….

The New Forests Company has rapidly established itself as Uganda’s biggest tree planter with more than 20,000 hectares of forestry land and is emerging as the country’s pre-eminent sustainable forestry company. The company is now operational on three plantations across the country in Mubende, Kiboga and the Bugiri districts and has, by the mid of 2011, planted more than 10’400 hectares…