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WeForest is a non-profit organization

that restores and conserves forests at the landscape level – with the aim of maximising the impact of trees for People, Nature, and Climate.
values that inspire our work :
Passion
Collaboration
Integrity
Transparency
Excellence
Courage

To date, WeForest has...

Grown over
118 million trees

100,000 hectares
of forest under restoration and conservation

45,000 HOUSEHOLDS
engaged in alternative livelihoods activities

WeForest Vision:

A world where communities and nature sustainably thrive together to stop global warming in our lifetime.

WeForest Mission:

To conserve and restore the ecological integrity of forests and landscapes, engaging communities to implement and deliver lasting environmental and social impacts. 

Our beginnings

Back in 2009, Bill Liao and Marie-Noelle Keijzer founded WeForest with a clear ambition: to stop global warming “in our lifetime, so our children don’t have to”.

For the first three years we were all volunteers, and every euro received went to grow trees. We grew organically: persuading other NGOs to plant for us, then hiring our first local foresters.

Today, WeForest is a team of more than 100 passionate professionals across the world, primarily based in our field offices in Zambia and Ethiopia, with our global team in Brussels.

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2025 Annual Report

WeForest, together

Partnering to increase our impact

Discover how, together with our partners, we scaled forest restoration for people, nature and climate this year.