Forests provide important ecosystem services such as carbon and water storage, air purification and protection against natural disasters. These services are often not taken into account when forests are managed.
Forests have an inestimable value that goes beyond the mere price of timber. Unfortunately, however, there is no market for the comprehensive service that forests provide.
Forests provide important ecosystem services such as carbon and water storage, air purification and protection against natural disasters. These services are often not taken into account when forests are managed.
Economic growth is often seen as a goal in itself, to be achieved through ever-increasing production and consumption, and is all too often destructive to the environment.
Natural growth is a slow, stable, steady process based on natural resources. Nature grows, or rather regenerates, indefinitely. How can economic growth and nature be harmonised?
Bioboon pursues a concept that resolves the contradictions between simple, fast returns and extremely slow and complex natural processes.
In doing so, we assume that “the market” and its participants are concerned with the yield, not the wood or the clear-cutting. However, since timber is the only thing that can generate a return in forestry, logging and the promise of short-term returns are mutually dependent.
A market and steady growth
Bioboon combines capitalism with ecology in a product that prevents destruction and enables capital gains.
One Bioboon represents one square metre of all forest areas managed in Bioboon. The new value of a Bioboon is defined by the Bioboon Index, which represents biomass, biodiversity and vitality for each unit.
Our goal
Bioboon is a non-profit organisation with a commercial superstructure that pursues only ONE goal: To preserve the existing forest or to restore destroyed areas and monocultures to their natural state.
We take a lot of time for this. About 100 years, at least.
And while nature grows, we make a business out of watching it grow. Via app or in the forest, young or old, learning or teaching, actively or passively. It serves the next generation.