EcoPlanet Bamboo Key Facts March 2011

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Overview Key investment dataSustainable mber in all its forms represents arguably one of the most

secure investments available and bamboo is perhaps the most excing

of any mber investment.

Bamboo is the fastest growing land plant on Earth and can reach its full

height in just one year rather than the 20 years required for tradional

mber. As a result, bamboo can create 20 mes more mber perhectare than other trees.

The global mber trade exceeds $600bn per year and growing.

However, supply is dwindling as 30% is of mber is produced illegally

and another 40% is from unsustainable sources. With its exceponal

green credenals and high producvity, bamboo is set to become the

sustainable mber source of the future.

Bamboo, and parcularly our species of bamboo, has some

exceponal qualies. A higher tensile strength than steel yet it is able

to be used in ultra-so clothing. Bamboo has many uses, but probably

the most important characterisc is that it can be used as a substute

for tradional mber in virtually any product at a lower cost, higher

quality and greater posive environmental impact.

As a result, bamboos demand around the world is well established

and rapidly growing. The world market is expected to quadruple to

$20bn within the next four years alone.

On top of its economic opportunity, bamboo is simply the best source

of mber for the planet. It sequesters four mes more carbon dioxide

than other mber and produces substanally more oxygen.

And as an investment: $45,000 invested isforecast to return $402,000

Like for like buer stock planted to ensure returns

Returns based on conservave, provable gures

Returns from year 1

Market expected to be worth $20bn by 2015

Unrivalled environmental benets

Commodity with desirable qualies

Invest from $15,000

Reliable yearly income

Returns guaranteed in years 1,2 and 3

Returns up to 895%

Experienced management team

Non-correlated with Equies, Property or Bonds

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Why Invest in Bamboo?

The global mber trade is well established and growing. It also enjoys

a long history of growth. According to Smart Money Magazine; ...real

prices for mber have steadily risen for more than 100 years - beer

performance than any other commodity.. The future also looksbright for mber investment with the UN FAO forecasng that the

consumpon of industrial wood will rise 60% over the next 25 years.

However, this increasing demand is set against dwindling

supply. Prevenon of illegal logging and consumer avoidance of

unsustainable mber products means there will be substanal un-

met demand and corresponding price rises.

As an environmentally and fully sustainable, fast growing mber

source, bamboos share of the global mber trade is set to boom.

Average annual returns on mber...

have outstripped those from leading

global stock indices, property, oil andgold for the past decade.

The Economist magazine

The global market for Bamboo

is expected to reach $20 billion

by 2015

Ministry of Agriculture, India

Why Invest in Bamboo Over Other Forms of Forestry?

A 20 meter hardwood tree harvested for its mber can take 50

As a grass, cung bamboo smulates growth and it can reach 3Unique characteriscs give bamboo a diverse range of uses in m

Broad based and rapidly growing global demand

Sequesters 4 mes more CO2 than standard trees and produces

Zero waste plant every part of it has value

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Volume of Bamboo

The returns forecast for this investment are theproduct of two simple variables; how muchbamboo is grown and its price in the marketwhen harvested.

First the assumpons for calculang the volumeof bamboo grown per hectare;

Bamboo plants per h.a 400

Bamboo poles per plant (15 years) 72.8 (av.)

Harvestable length of each pole 15m

Total metres per h.a. (15) years 436,800

In order to maximise producvity only 400plants will be planted per hectare. Withopmum spacing, each bamboo plant or clumphas the space for approximately 62 poles or

culms, but based on conservave independantdata, we only assume each plant has 13 culmsof which up to 50% are harvested in any year.This equates to 6.5 culms per plant per year onaverage.

Finally, the returns assume each culm has15m of usable bamboo. This data representsextremely conservave assumpons asindependantly provided by Dr. Montagnini fromthe Yale School of Tropical Forestry.

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EcoPlanet BambooEcoPlanet Bamboo was founded as a Subsidiary of US

based EcoPlanet Group LLC in order to mange some of

the largest Bamboo plantaons in Central America. The

movaon was threefold;

to provide a sustainable and commerciallyviable plantaon of the worlds most

valuable variety of Bamboo in an indigenous

environment close to its largest export market;

to provide sustainable jobs and economic vitality

in a region where the company founders have

long had a philanthropic interest;

to help combat deforestaon and climate

change by using one of the most

environmentally friendly reforestaon

plants in existence which is also the planets best

natural form of carbon sequestraon.

EcoPlanet Bamboo is a triple boom line businessfocussed on people, planet and prots; returning

degraded tropical land to producve plantaons and

providing clients with exceponal returns, both nancially

and ecologically.

The EcoPlanet Bamboo team, with the substanal

backing of EcoPlanet, has unrivalled experience in

plantaon management, agro-forestry, carbon resource

management, investment management and investor

relaons along-side deep and broad ranging regional

experience. ag

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Example Financial breakdownThis oer is limited to members of the Founders Program. Clients invesng aer the subscrip -

on to the Founders Program is closed will pay the full, rather than discounted, investment

price and be charged the basic, rather than discounted, performance fee.

Bamboo Investment Breakdown - Based on the investment of $45,000 (USD) - 1 hectare - 400 Plants

Notes: Projected harvest values are not guaranteed. Actual amount will depend on market value at me of harvest. Any pricing informaon is subject to change without noce.

Year Culms Per Plant Income From Investment Investment Yield

1 0 $3,150 7%

2 0 $3,600 8%

3 0 $4,050 9%

4 1.3 $7,002 15.56%

5 6.5 $35,012 77.81%

6 6.5 $35,012 77.81%

7 6.5 $35,012 77.81%

8 6.5 $35,012 77.81%

9 6.5 $35,012 77.81%

10 6.5 $35,012 77.81%

11 6.5 $35,012 77.81%

12 6.5 $35,012 77.81%

13 6.5 $35,012 77.81%

14 6.5 $35,012 77.81%

15 6.5 $35,012 77.81%

Total = $402,937 Average Yield = 59.69%

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