Ireland's mild, wet climate and strong natural conditions make it one of the best places in Europe to grow forests. However, only 11.6% of Ireland's land is covered by forest, compared to about 39% across the EU. This gap offers a real chance for well-planned forestry, native woodland, biodiversity, and carbon projects.
Green Belt partners with sustainability professionals, charities, NGOs, companies, and individuals who want to make a real difference through forestry and nature-based projects. Whether you want to measure carbon, improve biodiversity, create native woodlands, offer guided nature experiences, or restore land for the long term, we can help you plan, deliver, and manage your project.
Nature projects that make a measurable impact.
Nature projects
- Reforestation
- Guided Nature Experiences
- Biodiversity Projects
- Ecology Services
- Measure Carbon and
- Biodiversity
Support Schemes
- Native Woodland
- Native Tree Area Scheme
- Agroforestry
- Woodland Improvement
- Neighbourwood Schemes
- GIS Mapping & Lidar Services
- Environmental Impact Statements
REFORESTATION
Reforestation helps forest owners meet their replanting obligations and bring harvested land back into productive forestry.
Green Belt assists forest owners in meeting the replanting requirements of their felling licence, from planning and species selection to establishment. We also offer flexible post-replanting management to ensure healthy forest development.
If you are considering selling land after harvesting, Green Belt can advise on that route too, with buyers often interested in land suitable for replanting.
Guided Nature Experiences
Guided Nature Experiences enable teams and organisations to engage directly with forestry and biodiversity projects.
Green Belt hosts groups at managed sites across Ireland for hands-on activities such as tree planting, watercourse improvement, biodiversity projects, insect counts, and bird observation. These enjoyable and meaningful experiences help your team understand the landscape and their role in its improvement.
Green Belt can provide photos, videos, certificates, and site information to support your sustainability reporting.
Biodiversity Projects
Biodiversity projects help organisations turn sustainability goals into measurable on-the-ground action.
Green Belt partners with companies, charities, NGOs, and private landowners to design projects that improve habitats, protect water, support pollinators, and enhance the landscape. Each project is tailored to clear goals, including biodiversity uplift, nature restoration, staff engagement, reporting, and long-term stewardship.
Green Belt can source suitable land, develop project plans, establish baselines, and track progress through practical reporting and site data. An ideal tool for your Corporate Social Responsibility or Carbon Offsetting.
Ecology Services
Ecology services help landowners and organisations assess, measure, and enhance the natural value of their sites.
Green Belt supports nature-based projects with biodiversity baselining, habitat assessment, monitoring, and actionable plans. Services include species recording, water and habitat assessment, identifying opportunities to increase biodiversity, and tracking changes over time.
Our ecology services provide clear evidence for restoration projects, sustainability reporting, and long-term land management.
Measure Carbon and Biodiversity
Turn nature into measurable, credible data.
Understanding how a forest or nature project is performing starts with establishing what is there today — and measuring how it changes over time.
Green Belt combines forestry expertise, ecological assessment and advanced monitoring technologies to establish robust baselines and track changes in forest growth, carbon, biodiversity, habitats, water and overall ecosystem condition.
Using tools including satellite data, drone surveys, LiDAR, geotagged imagery, ecological surveys and on-site monitoring, we can build a clear picture of a site’s natural assets and demonstrate how they are developing.
For landowners, investors and corporate partners, this creates more than environmental data. It provides credible evidence to support land and asset management, sustainability reporting, nature strategies, stakeholder engagement and long-term investment decisions.
Where appropriate, our monitoring can also help identify opportunities associated with emerging carbon and nature markets.
Measure what matters. Track what changes. Demonstrate the value of nature.