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The majority of Willmott Forests' plantations are located in the region known as the Bombala Supply Zone. In addition to the Bombala region, the company is currently very active in the Murray Valley region.

Willmott Forests takes into account environmental, social and ethical considerations. Willmott Forests is accredited under Quality System AS/NZS ISO 9001 and has an extensive planning procedure. Additionally the company is involved with many industry associations and has in recent years, become a recognised key stakeholder in the development and implementation of the Code of Practice under the NSW Plantations and Reafforestation Act 1999 affecting the plantation timber industry.

About Plantation Forestry
As world demand for forest products is increasing, supply is becoming more restricted. Global market assessments point to faster growth in the demand for wood relative to supply over the next 25 years.

The world's natural forest area is declining and environmental constraints are impacting heavily on large areas of existing production forest. As a result, man-made plantations are being called upon to play a greater role in world industrial wood supply.A viable alternative to harvesting Australia's native forest resource is the supply of timber from plantations. These plantations contain either softwood or hardwood trees. The current taxation treatment of ethical investments in such plantations encourages private sector investment.

Sequestering carbon through expanded commercially driven plantation forestry activity will be a central aspect of Australia's response to its international obligations to combat global warming. The role of plantations in acting as 'sinks' for the storage of carbon is now recognised as a key tool in the overall strategy to reduce atmospheric carbon levels.In addition to this, increasingly it is being recognised that the solution to major environmental problems such as land and water salinisation will depend to a significant degree on our ability to collate, coordinate and implement our science with strategies that make profits at the same time as restoring the environment.

Commodity timber markets are increasingly supplied by plantation wood, which now accounts for approximately 70% of domestic sawn timber markets.Australia's forest plantations now exceed 1.7 million hectares (as at December 2003). This consists of around 1.0 million hectares (ha) of softwood species, and 0.7 million ha of hardwood. The Forest Products Industry forms a significant part of the Australian manufacturing sector. The forestry industries in Australia employ approximately 78,000 people. The expansion in the plantation sector has provided substantial support for these employment numbers and their contribution to regional economies.

Australian Forest Growers
Australian Forest Growers (AFG) operates a voluntary, independent, third-party product certification program designed to give investors confidence that offer documents for forestry investment schemes operating within the Corporations Act 2001 are in accordance with the defined standards of the Disclosure Code for Afforestation Managed Investment Schemes. These rules govern the operation of the AFG certification scheme for the Disclosure Code for Afforestation Managed Investment Schemes.

To comply with the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act, agribusiness fund managers are now requiring that certified identification documents are provided by investors with applications. To avoid delays in processing your investment, please include identification forms and a certified copy of your ID with your application. more info

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