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Category: Nicaragua

How EcoPlanet Bamboo duped World Resources Institute and The Nature Conservancy

Posted on 29 March 20187 January 2019

A recent article by Angeli Mehta on the website Ethical Corporation reports on a “young company” called EcoPlanet Bamboo. Mehta writes that “EcoPlanet Bamboo is creating permanent jobs for communities.”

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The EcoPlanet Bamboo investment saga continues: Who is John Bourbon? And why does he want a new liquidator?

Posted on 27 June 201725 April 2018

The EcoPlanet Bamboo investment saga continues its slow unravelling. In 2012, EcoPlanet Bamboo (UK) Ltd sold “bamboo bonds” to retail investors (promising returns of up to 895%!).

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EcoPlanet Bamboo’s investors were “significantly let down”

Posted on 21 April 201715 September 2021

Troy Wiseman’s conflicts of interest are at the centre of the unravelling of the EcoPlanet Bamboo investment scheme.

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Troy Wiseman of EcoPlanet Bamboo caught lying in late 2015: “We did an institutional debt deal with a Wall Street fund”

Posted on 30 March 20173 April 2018

At the beginning of December 2015, Troy Wiseman was in Paris. The CEO and co-founder of EcoPlanet Bamboo was there as part of the Nicaraguan government delegation to COP 21, the UN climate change negotiations. Wiseman’s Paris trip came just a few days before Wiseman wrote to the people unfortunate enough to have invested in…

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An update on EcoPlanet Bamboo, Eco Resources Fund, and Premier Group (Isle of Man) Ltd: “Substantial recovery of value from the plantations may be unlikely”

Posted on 17 March 201725 April 2018

The Eco Resources Fund was launched in July 2012 in the Isle of Man. Via a special purpose vehicle called ERF Limited, the Fund invested in bamboo plantations in Nicaragua and South Africa. The bamboo plantations are run by EcoPlanet Bamboo.

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