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Miro Forestry is a sustainable forestry and timber business with plantations in Ghana and Sierra Leone, West Africa. The company was founded, and began planting, in late 2010. It now has 9,800 hectares of standing forest established through its own planting activities. Miro Forestry is a profit driven, commercial plantation timber business. The Company’s objective is to be a leading low-cost producer and supplier of sustainable timber operating to high management, social and environmental standards. Miro Forestry will continue to operate to international forestry certification standards and to conserve natural forest and other valuable vegetation within its areas of operation. The Company will continue to reach out to local communities to establish social, economic and environmental development programs within the local community adhering to high standards of corporate social responsibility. The Company aims to be the preferred partner for the local communities in which it operates and for international business partners and financial institutions. The Company’s principal objective is to continue to acquire and build interests in timber and sustainable forestry businesses and assets that provide the Company with: exposure to capital appreciation of, as well as the cash yields generated from, timber and forestry investments; optimize long-term sustainable returns through best practice management; ownership of timber and forestry businesses and assets, which are, or have the objective of, producing sustainable timber certified to FSC standards; and revenue from the supply of timber and timber products worldwide. The Boumfoum Plantation in Ghana consists of over 10,000 hectares of fertile land located in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. The Company’s land is located about 10 minutes drive from the town of Agogo and about one hour from Kumasi. The Company’s Yoni Plantation in Sierra Leone consists of over 21,000 hectares of flat and fertile land located in the Tonkolili District of Sierra Leone, 90 miles from Freetown, the country’s capital, and adjacent to the country’s major highway into Freetown. The Company is growing short-rotation species including Eucalyptus and Acacia. Website: https://www.miroforestry.com/ Phone: +44 (0)7899074158 Industry: Paper & Forest Products Company size: 501-1,000 employees Type: Privately Held Founded: 2010