Green Earth Africa

Port Louis Mauritius 28th June 2011

Green Earth Africa announced today that due to the wave of interest created by their various environmental credit initiatives the company has received numerous offers from interested parties in different parts of the world for participation in creating a renewable source of energy and carbon credits through various land holdings made available to the company. Working in partnership with local communities and partners, Green Earth Africa will refocus and expand their operations and fund raising to take advantage of the opportunities made available to the company within the carbon credit sector by expanding into the renewable energy sector in the form of bio fuels, bio mass and renewable power through various fully integrated agricultural operations. In a brief statement, Havercroft was quoted as saying “Green Earth Africa is in a unique position in that it has had various blocks of prime agricultural land made available in various parts of the world and is in the enviable position of not having to raise finance to purchase these blocks of land but will rather develop and work this land in partnership with local communities, the rightful owners of the land. This situation has allowed the company to be in the enviable position to enable it to invest all funds raised into the production of various commodities and renewable energy sources rather than tying up investor’s funds into land ownership, thus creating a far bigger and quicker return on investor’s funds. Our fully integrated business model allows for the production of food crops and various plantation crops with the bi products being used for the production of renewable energy in the form of electricity through the use of the crop waste being converted into bio mass for electricity generation, or in the case of our planned sugar cane estates, the production of bio butanol fuels and the crop waste being used in bio mass production for electricity generation through continuous pyrolosis, thus creating a multiple cash flow stream. Our model offers the perfect investment destination for various funds seeking to invest in the renewable energy, environment, green, social and agricultural sector and ticks all the right boxes .For a comprehensive insight into the company’s current and planned operations and opportunities, the Green Earth Africa web site is being rebuilt and updated and will be relaunched within the next few weeks, or alternatively I can be contacted directly.”

Port Louis, Mauritius 28th June 2011 — Nick Havercroft, founder and president of Green Earth Africa announced today the demerger of Green Earth Africa from Z R Energies/Good Earth Power.

In a brief statement, Havercroft advised that though the shareholders of Green Earth Africa will maintain a substantial shareholding in Z R Energies in their individual capacities and will continue to work with and alongside Z R Energies, but due to the enormous wave if interest currently being experienced by Green Earth Africa and their environmental business and investment opportunities, Havercroft felt it was paramount to take advantage of this interest and refocus his energies into Green Earth Africa. He will continue to offer his help and advice to Z R Energies on a part time basis.

Havercroft was quoted as saying .”Z R Energies has a very capable founder and CEO, Jason Rosamond, who has an extraordinary amount of energy and a fantastic team around him and with the enormous amount of opportunities currently available in the renewable energy and environment sector throughout Africa, it is far more advantageous to the economies and communities of developing countries for myself and Jason to head up both Green Earth Africa and Z R Energies independently. Rather than combine our skills and energy through one entity, It will be far more advantageous and effective to develop the markets and opportunities in the various targeted sectors through both companies .This will invariably lead to greater investment into these economies and communities, whilst at the same time promoting job and wealth creation , poverty alleviation and the development of the renewable energy sector.”

WEBWIRE – Tuesday, June 01, 2010

Hong Kong, Tuesday 1st June 2010.Green Earth Africa, after making presentations to a major international airline , highlighting Green Earth Africa’s reforestation , deforestation , wildlife protection , bio diversity and community development programmes throughout Southern Africa have reached an initial agreement to manage the airlines carbon offset and reforestation programmes throughout Southern Africa. Formalisation of the agreement are under way and signature of the agreements will take place in due course.

In a short statement Nick Havercroft, President of Green Earth Africa said “Whilst many airlines offer the opportunity to offset your personal emissions during your flight, very few passengers actually understand where this money goes to or how it is used to offset their personal emissions and see it as a money making scam by the airlines. Most airlines use these funds to engage in tree planting exercises, which is a positive intuitive, however the current costs of planting one tree averages out to around US$9.00 per tree and the survival rate of these planted trees is less than 40%.

Often, expensive NGO’s or governmental departments with high overheads and salaries are commissioned to undertake the planting of these trees. Once planted the trees are forgotten about and with insect damage, fire damage, cattle grazing and illicit chopping down of the trees the survival rate is very low, less than five % of the trees actually grow to maturity and therefore no carbon is absorbed to offset your flight, despite having paid for the offset charges.

Green Earth Africa, through it’s experienced, hands on management, local knowledge, protected timber plantations, the employment and involvement of local communities, are able to plant trees at a cost of less than US$2.00 per tree and achieve a survival rate of over 90%, thus greatly increasing the effectiveness of the airlines carbon offset emission programmes.

It is our hope that other airlines see the importance of skilled and continuous management of planted trees which is essential for their survival and effectiveness in offsetting their industries emissions. It is Green Earth Africa’s wish to engage more airlines and manage their tree planting programmes and to ensure that this is a global airline intuitive to combat climate change and that customers personal carbon offset payments are used to maximum benefit for the purpose in which they were intended. With our management and cost structure, we are able to plant five times more trees for the same cost than what is currently being planted and also ensure a much higher survival rate. This is not a competition between the airlines, but rather a joint industry, community and African effort to help reverse the trend of global climate change and the destruction of the continents rainforests. It is our hope that the airlines continue their good work to reduce and offset their greenhouse gas emissions and more will engage Green Earth Africa to manage and protect their tree planting programmes.”

Green Earth Africa, an African Environmental Offset and Renewable Resources Company, launches a new web site.

Cape Town, South africa – April 16,2010 – Nick Havercroft, Chairman and Founder of Green Earth Africa, an Environmental Offset and Renewable Resources Company, announced on Sunday 11th April the launch of the Company’s new Web site: GreenEarthAfrica.com.

Green Earth Africa, through its natural resources which include large game and forest concessions, and its relationships with local communities is aiming to become the leading environment protection company in Africa.

With the growing trade in Carbon Credits, new cap and trade legislation and the need for companies and individuals to reduce their carbon footprint, Green Earth Africa through the sale of Carbon Credits from their various Rain Forest and Savannah Forest concessions is reinvesting in forest protection to prevent activities such as illegal logging, charcoal making and wildlife trafficking. Funds are also being invested in new forest plantations to create a new renewable resource bank and Carbon Credit bank.

Green Earth Africa is the leading African company promoting wildlife offsets, more commonly known as Mitigation Banking; with funds being invested in wildlife protection, anti poaching, prevention of wildlife trafficking, breeding programmes and water security. Local communities are being encouraged to become fully involved and through community development and job creation successful programmes such as the well known Campfire Project are being implemented.

Water credits are also an integral part of the business of Green Earth Africa. With growing concern of water security, availability and a focus now on virtual water trade and both business and personal water footprints, Green Earth Africa, through its pure underground aquifer leases and water rights are presenting an opportunity for companies and individuals to purchase Water Credits. Funds raised will be invested in clean water supplies for communities and in the latest drip irrigation systems on secured agricultural land in Africa thus creating food security, job creation, community development, self reliance and a reduction in the virtual water trade between the Western World and the Third World.

Nick Havercroft in a short statement said: ”Africa is suffering more than most from the effects of climate change through no fault of their own. They have the resources to be able to become world leaders in the fight against climate change. To achieve this potential, Africa has to protect and market their resources rather than be stripped of them. We have the forests, the soil, the water , the wildlife and the people. We just need to work together to protect what we have. In order to do this, money has to be available as an incentive to the people to protect what is rightfully theirs. The only way to protection is exploitation through trade rather than chop it down for the timber, or kill it for its ivory and skins. By trading what we have, we are able to reinvest and increase the Environmental Bank thus helping not only with climate change but also with poverty alleviation.”

Singapore, Wednesday 5th May 2010. Nick Havercroft, the President of Green Earth Africa, an environmental offset and renewable resources company with interests in forests, game concessions, safari parks and timber plantations throughout Sub Saharan Africa announced today the acquisition of a majority stake in the Singapore based company Waverly (PTY) Ltd. Waverly holds a majority share in the Angolan based Luiana Tourismo and Safari Angola Ltd (LTSA), a company with interests in Safari, wildlife management, agriculture and demining activities . LTSA has a 25 year renewable lease on what will be the world’s largest privately held safari game reserve. LTSA have engaged a leading US Agrarian Research company to complete the due diligence, tree verification for REDD approval to allow Green Earth Africa to trade on the verified markets as well as the voluntary markets, species verification for wildlife mitigation/trading and the environmental impacts on any developments of the concession .The US based team left the Luiana concession Tuesday 4th May and will finalise the initial 300 page report within the next few weeks. Upon completation and acceptance of the report, funding for the development of the world’s largest game park, amounting to US$200 million will be released with a one percent commitment fee paid upon signature. The signing ceremony will be held in Luanda, Angola in early June and Boards of Green Earth Africa, LTSA, Government officials and representatives of the worlds press will be present. The signing ceremony will be followed by a site visit to the Luiana game concession which will include the opening of the new border post which will allow easy trans-frontier crossing into the park from Victoria Falls, The Okavango Delta and the Caprivi Strip, all popular tourist destinations and serviced by daily international flights. Nick Havercroft and Stephen Muza, both from Green Earth Africa will sit on the board of LTSA which will be chaired by Stephen.

In addition to the Luiana concession, LTSA has recently secured the bordering concessions of Mavinga Cutada , in excess of 3 million hectares and Mucusso Cutada which is 2.5 million hectares, to be incorporated into LTSA and the Luiana concession and on both of which Green Earth Africa will have exclusivity on all mitigation and offsets trading. With this increased carbon/mitigation bank further job creation, poverty alleviation and community development will be enhanced which in turn will lead to less illegal poaching, wildlife trafficking and illegal logging activities. With the addition of these concessions LTSA/Green Earth Africa will now border the Kavango Transfrontier Park, which is the world’s largest national Park spanning across Zimbabwe, Zambia, Namibia, Botswana and Angola.

“Although it is an ambitious project and covers a vast area of unspoilt Africa, Green Earth Africa, working alongside the management of LTSA and local communities, our vision, management skills and local knowledge will ensure that this will be a success, not only financially but environmentally. People are waking up to the fact that damage to the environment takes a few days to destroy and decades to fix. Look at the environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in the space of two weeks, all caused from one little hole drilled by a mega rich oil company in their quest for further profits to satisfy the worlds thirst for oil,” says Havercroft. “Corporations and individuals should return some of these profits into protecting what little areas of unspoilt environmental havens that remain to offset the damage caused by business and individual lifestyles, and we down here in Southern Africa have the majority of these areas. Unfortunately, red tape, understaffing and inhibitive costs of REDD approval , which typically costs up to US$700 000.00 to verify a few hectares of forests and takes several years on the waiting list is killing the potential trade in carbon offsets in Africa. Very few start up companies have the financial resources and time to sit around and wait for the western world , who are the main causers of climate change to make up the rules and regulate the countries which have the assets to prevent and reverse climate change. Green Earth Africa has the largest carbon and mitigation bank in the world and over the next few years will have one of the greatest impacts in the region on community development, education and job creation by reversing the trend of stripping Africa of its resources to protecting its resources”