Mis-sold Foresty Investments
The investment model, based on the planting, cultivation and harvesting of trees was often pitched to investors as a secure, high-yield and environmentally-friendly opportunity. However, often investment in forestry were not as secure as they was billed to be, as the trees were at risk from timber diseases, pests, natural disasters, bad weather, changing prices of timber and local political changes.
In actual fact investing in forestry is very high risk, and have often left investors with nothing. In many cases, those people should not have been sold this type of investment and it is possible for customers to seek compensation and recoup some of their losses.