We are a Mexican regenerative forestry company forged through a partnership between the pine resin industry and rural communities. Our team of 33 professionals led by industry leaders is complemented by a growing 450-person workforce. We are leaders in the Mexican pine resin industry and emerging leaders in Mexican forestry. We are seasoned professionals that have built successful purpose-driven companies; we know how to manage risk and uncertainty when forging innovation.
We are investors, entrepreneurs, farmers, foresters, biologists, chemists & activists fearless in speaking truth to power. We are rural & Purhepecha communities in Michoacán with a millennial tradition of sustainably tapping our native pine trees for resin. We are a growing network of collaborators co-creating the future.
We love planting trees that create opportunity together with forest people. We thrive in relationships that empower rural and indigenous communities to innovate and co-create environmental stewardship and well-being. We wake up early inspired knowing we are building a new kind of company creating holistic and transformative wealth. We sleep great at night knowing our company is ‘carbon negative’ forging climate smart solutions for the planet.
We are unapologetic about creating an attractive return on investment for investors by advancing economic, environmental, social & cultural sustainability. We are proud to propel Mexico in becoming a leader in the US$10 billion global pine resin market. We aspire to inspire the world to join us in adopting regenerative practices in business & finance in service to life.
WE EXPAND COMMUNITY PROSPERITY WHILE LEAVING THE TREES STANDING
We developed an attractive alternative long-term investment opportunity in real assets that creates access to finance and technology to provide income and jobs, while affording investors a financial return.
Together we can demonstrate that undervalued and overlooked investment opportunities can lead to a sustainable just world that includes Indigenous People.
In 2009, Ejido Verde was launched as a philanthropic tree-planting project in response to a diminishing supply of raw pine resin. The goal was to scale the supply of pine resin to increase production to the Mexican Chemical Industry. Until 2015, Ejido Verde experimented with a range of approaches to reforestation, from giving seedlings to farmers, enriching degraded natural forests, and restoring degraded lands to establishing commercial agroforestry plantations. However, a lack of strategy, forestry expertise, and community buy-in led to a low 65% survival rate of the trees.
The transition to formalize Ejido Verde into a clear for-profit business with a long-term strategy to advance economic, social and environmental prosperity for rural and indigenous communities was progressive. This transition began in 2014, coming to fruition in 2016 when Shaun Paul joined the team and built the infrastructure to further refine the business model and establish Ejido Verde as an independent for-profit purpose-driven company.