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CHARLES FREWEN

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Anglo-Brazilian born in London, Frewen has been doing business in Brazil since 1986, when he had the exclusive rights to export the famous Brazilian Brahma Beer, today a key part of the world's largest brewery & beverages conglomerate. Frewen started a campaign to assist the Amazon forest with part of the beer’s revenues and was internationally awarded in several countries for this strategy as long ago as 1988.

For over thirty years he has been focused on investment and business activities with a sustainable focus, particularly sustainable organic agriculture and forestry management and reforestation projects.

He was the initiator of a project to catalogue the plants on and around the Fazenda Toucan Cipó, lasting six years, together with The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew cataloguing over 1,200 native species within a ten mile radius. This also led to the discovery of 13 new species of plant, previously unknown to science, one of which was named after Frewen in recognition of his contribution to science: “Pilosocereus frewenii”.

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He has been a statutory director of both for profit and not-for-profit entities. He was a founding member and President of GIPFOR “Instituto Global de Plantas e Florestas” (The Global Institute for Plants and Forests) a Brazilian non-profit dedicated to the study and understanding of plants and forests for the benefit of mankind and the planet.
He has participated in agricultural and forestry projects covering Brazil’s three main biomes, aimed at reforestation and recuperation of degraded land, including reforesting part of the Amazon and Savannah region with native açaí trees and other commercial species.
Frewen is a Brazilian and British citizen, bi-lingual in English and Portuguese. He has ongoing experience in reforestation, and biodiversity propagation. Frewen also works with a highly qualified team of Brazilian forestry engineers and international botanists to assist in the development of projects. Charles Frewen graduated from Eton College in England in 1976.