About us

Redd Forests Pty Ltd was incorporated in December of 2008 as a “profit for purpose” business designed to apply commercially viable methodologies to replace activities that degrade or destroy the world’s forests.

Recognising the value in native forests by using them to store CO2 is a practical and meaningful way of combating the effects of climate change.

Redd Forests seeks to acquire the logging and carbon sequestration rights from landowners (including Governments) of native and old growth forests which are under threat from rapacious logging or conversion to monoculture plantations.

We calculate the carbon value of these forests both as standing stock as well as their future carbon sequestration potential and then seek to finance that carbon value in the international carbon market either through bonds or carbon credits. Where this value exceeds the income potential from traditional forestry activities we believe it is logical that landowners will turn to protecting their land rather than degrading it.

As carbon increases in value as a commodity it naturally follows that protecting these forests will become more financially viable than degrading them leaving logging and the extraction of wood products to existing plantations and plantations grown on already degraded land.