Intro
Forests
Mission
Intro
Forests
Mission

Indigenous Rewilding the most precious places on Earth.

Sacred Forests is a conservation enterprise that empowers pioneering impact brands to partner with leading Indigenous Peoples, together preserving and restoring the world’s essential forests and guardian cultures, for all, forever.

(In other words, drawing down CO2 while releasing Indigenous wisdom into a world that needs it more than ever.)

The SF 
Founders

The founders of Sacred Forests are three successful white guys. Great.

Not the demography one would normally entrust to protect forests and Indigenous Peoples. But with decades of leadership in conservation, green business, and sustainable investing, what they lack in diversity, they more than make up for with the ability to ally commercial and Indigenous interests (that, and rugged good looks).

In fact, their experience with forests goes back generations in their family trees. They believe in direct action, plain language, and scalable deep impact. With the right partners, in the right places, and the best teams.

Aart Van Veller

Founder of Vandebron

Co-founder and former Director of Vandebron, an online marketplace for sustainable energy with the goal of fuelling the Netherlands 100% sustainably by offering energy from independent Dutch producers directly to customers.

Daniel Povel

Director of Corporate Development, Triodos Bank

With a career in ethical investing, sustainable development and decades of experience working in international investments and financing, asset management and consumer banking, Daniel knows how to put money to good use.

Philipp Kauffmann

Founder of Original Beans
(‘Most Susutainable Chocolate Company in the World’ 2023/24)

After a career start in the Internet world, Philipp worked for the WWF and the UN on conservation issues around the globe. He follows the motto of his forefather, Georg Ludwig Hartig, who in 1793 wrote that "any wise forest management must use the forest in such a way that generations thereafter can draw at least as much advantage from it as the presently living generation has.”

The Team

The team combines Indigenous wisdom keepers, former UN-ers, anthropologists, regenerative scientists, commercial professionals, the CEO of the two-time ‘world’s most sustainable chocolate company’, an eco energy company founder and a director of one of the world’s most ethical banks, all syncing up asynchronously across time zones.

First Indigenous
partners

Asoarhuaco

Rogelio Mejia, President

In 2012, one of Colombia's most important indigenous leaders narrowly escaped assassination. Rogelio's car was riddled with bullets. As he jumped out and ran for his life, one bullet went through his white hat. Miraculously he survived.The Association of Indigenous Producers are committed to strengthen the economic interests of the Arhuaco people and shape local economic development in balance and respect with nature.

Deeper bonds for impact

Sacred Forests is a deep alliance between pioneering impact brands and leading Indigenous Peoples, together preserving and restoring the world’s essential forests and guardian cultures, for all, forever.

Nowadays, forest projects seem to grow on trees. But forests are more than just trees and carbon calculus. Their future is complex. To succeed, they need the most capable and committed allies: leading Indigenous guardians and pioneering impact companies. Sacred Forests brings together these exclusive partnerships. We serve as developer, storyteller, integrity guarantor and cultural bridge builder.

Restoring the world’s essential forests together with Indigenous guardians.

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