CT Enviro-Consultants works with plantation owners, forestry companies and investors across Africa and beyond. You get a consultant who has done the work, not just studied it.
Charles Swart is a Saasveld-qualified forester with 32 years of hands-on experience in plantation management, harvesting, wildfire investigation and FSC auditing across South Africa and 9 other countries.
He operates as a self-employed consultant through CT Enviro-Consultants, working with plantation owners, forestry companies, investors and conservation organisations. He has also qualified as a Wildland Fire Investigator Type 3 and conducts formal wildfire origin and cause investigations for the forest industry.
CT Enviro-Consultants provides independent, specialist forestry consulting to plantation owners, investors and forestry companies. You get 32 years of hands-on field experience, not a desk opinion.
Full plantation enumerations and valuations using the Faustmann Formula and NSV for transactions, financing and management planning.
Independent field assessments for buyers, sellers and investors ahead of property transactions. No conflicts of interest.
Machine costing, productivity studies and operations analysis across South Africa, Brazil, Papua New Guinea and Tanzania.
First-party FSC audits for Sappi, Singisi and Cloudy Bay since 2008. Experience on both sides of the certification process.
Control programmes, Working for Water (WFW) technical advisory and herbicide application across KwaZulu-Natal and beyond.
Qualified Wildland Fire Investigator Type 3. Formal origin and cause investigations for insurance and legal purposes.
Independent, experienced and field-based. No junior consultants, no desk opinions.
Think of Charles as your own forestry director without the overhead. One call gets you 32 years of answers across plantation management, harvesting, fire investigation and certification.
South Africa, Papua New Guinea, Mozambique, Brazil, Tanzania, Ghana, Ethiopia, Malawi and Swaziland.
Understand where timber prices, certification requirements and land regulations are heading before they affect your operation.
CT Enviro-Consultants is not tied to any timber company, buyer or supplier. You get impartial advice based solely on field evidence.
Contracts management for one of KwaZulu-Natal's largest commercial forestry operations, covering harvesting systems, contractor oversight and logistics.
Managing road construction, timber extraction and FSC compliance for a remote tropical forest concession in Papua New Guinea.
Over a decade of first-party FSC auditing for one of South Africa's largest commercial forestry operations.
Designing and overseeing invasive alien plant control across forestry and conservation land in KZN.
Infrastructure construction in a sensitive heritage and conservation environment in Zululand.
Ongoing work study supporting silvicultural modernisation across Mondi's South African plantations.
Quantifying biomass potential across pine and eucalyptus plantations for energy and fibre applications.
Implementing mechanised harvesting and extraction systems across Mozambique, Malawi and Tanzania.
Get in touch with CT Enviro-Consultants and get straight answers from someone who has spent 32 years in the field.
Charles will be in touch shortly. For urgent matters, call directly on +27 (0)83 231 3387.