Connecting Organizations With Nature Positive Impacts

Forest Friends is dedicated to forging meaningful connections between organizations and nature, creating positive impacts that resonate with both individuals and businesses.

Since 2021, we’ve partnered with companies across various industries to craft custom-tailored solutions that restore and protect the environment.

Our commitment goes beyond mere collaboration; we work hand-in-hand with our partners to design impactful strategies that align with their goals, ensuring that every action taken contributes to a healthier, more sustainable world.

• 79 organizations
• 36 different countries/states

All-Inclusive Nature Positive Impacts

Forest Friends offers integral solutions that connect your organization with nature-positive impacts guided by the United Nations’ Ten Principles for Restoration (2021-2030). These solutions are designed to halt and reverse biodiversity loss, much like the 1.5°C goal for climate action, but for nature—restoring ecosystems by 2030 and ensuring full recovery by 2050.

Forest Friends offers verifiable, socially inclusive restoration projects in global biodiversity hotspots allowing your organization or business to take real action and directly address key SDGs such as Life on Land (SDG 15) and Climate Action (SDG 13).

Connect Your Value Chain With Nature

Forest Friends generates significant value for businesses and organizations by providing a clear path to social and environmental responsibility. By connecting your company with nature-positive initiatives, Forest Friends helps you meet and exceed your environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals, while actively contributing to the global effort to halt biodiversity loss and restore degraded ecosystems. With a credible platform for communicating your environmental impact to stakeholders, investors, and customers, Forest Friends strengthens your market position, builds trust, and fosters long-term loyalty. 

Embedding nature positive impacts into your business model goes beyond just compliance with ESG goals—it communicates that your organization actively contributes to a better future. This makes your products more appealing, as they become associated with a greater cause, which boosts brand loyalty and differentiation in the marketplace. This approach can also open doors to fresh opportunities for growth, as government authorities are more likely to grant access, approvals, and licenses to organizations committed to positive social and environmental outcomes.

Science-Driven Ecosystem Restoration

Forest Friends employs a science-based approach to restoration that ensures every project delivers meaningful, measurable impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem recovery. By focusing on biodiversity hotspots recognized by international conservation organizations, we partner with key local groups to restore areas affected by habitat fragmentation, biodiversity loss, or unsustainable land use. Using a combination of advanced remote sensing and on-site verification, we carefully select regions where restoration will have the greatest impact.

Our reforestation efforts go beyond simple tree planting. We restore ecosystems by planting a diverse range of native species—typically between 15 and 41—that are specifically chosen for their ecological benefits, growth potential, and ability to thrive in their environment. This variety enriches local biodiversity, creating a resilient ecosystem that supports long-term recovery.

To ensure the success of these restoration efforts, Forest Friends monitors key ecological indicators, such as tree health, the presence of invasive species, and overall canopy growth. This ongoing assessment allows us to adapt and improve as needed, ensuring that our restoration projects are both effective and sustainable. We also provide transparent reporting on tree planting progress, carbon capture potential, and the broader environmental benefits your organization contributes to.

Pioneering Industry Engagement

Forest Friends actively engages industries with the best practices for nature and climate positive action by hosting international webinars on emerging environmentally conscious topics, such as regenerative tourism. These webinars offer businesses the opportunity to explore how they can align their operations with the growing demand for sustainability while contributing to the global effort to restore nature. Forest Friends is pioneering solutions that integrate both climate and nature-positive actions into business models. This ensures that organizations not only meet their sustainability goals but also future-proof their operations by embedding purpose-driven, nature-positive strategies that benefit both their business and the planet.

Best Practices in Ecosystem Restoration and Sustainable Business Alignment

Forest Friends stands at the forefront of global environmental leadership by adhering to international best practices in ecosystem restoration and sustainability. As a proud actor in the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030), we are committed to accelerating restoration projects, shifting behaviors, building capacity, and fostering a culture of restoration and accountability. Since 2022, our involvement with the Glasgow Declaration Capacity Building Working Group underscores our dedication to emphasizing the importance of conserving and restoring ecosystems, especially in high-traffic tourism destinations. As an early adopter of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) recommendations, Forest Friends has the objective to help businesses and organizations meet global corporate reporting requirements and align with the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. By partnering with Forest Friends, your organization taps into a network that embodies these best practices, leading the way in responsible environmental stewardship and demonstrating your commitment to global sustainability goals.

Restoration Projects across Central and South America

Forest Friends offers a diverse portfolio of ecosystem restoration projects across Central and South America, each designed to address specific environmental challenges. From building climate resilience and mitigating desertification to supporting wildlife habitats, our projects span a range of ecosystems and are tailored to achieve targeted impacts. With a wide selection of initiatives, our clients can choose the projects that best align with their sustainability goals, ensuring every effort contributes to meaningful change for the planet.