Our Impact

Over the past 15 years, Forest Carbon has supported the creation of 250 new woodlands, planting 13 million trees, which will sequester 3 million tonnes of CO2e over the project lifecycle.  The peatland restoration projects our partners have supported cover 2000 hectares of land in the UK, avoiding 300,000 tonnes CO2e emissions over the projects' lifetime. 

We thought you might be interested to see what tree species we've been planting during this time. 

The figures below are as at February 2021.                                                                                                                         

Species
Trees planted
% of total
Birch
2,366,377
24.46%
Sitka Spruce
2,030,555
20.99%
Scots Pine
1,255,141
12.97%
Oak
911,206
9.42%
Alder
442,884
4.58%
Rowan
387,195
4.00%
Willow
302,716
3.13%
Norway Spruce
274,897
2.84%
Ash
265,425
2.74%
Douglas Fir
243,102
2.51%
Other Broadleaf
173,523
1.79%
Hazel
168,848
1.75%
Sycamore
166,152
1.72%
Aspen
127,323
1.32%
Cherry
119,556
1.24%
Hawthorn
88,087
0.91%
Larch
75,801
0.78%
Western Red Cedar
59,223
0.61%
Holly
56,755
0.59%
Juniper
53,085
0.55%
Other Conifer
50,427
0.52%
Beech
40,721
0.42%
Maple
12,168
0.13%
Eucaplyptus
2,734
0.03%
Total
9,673,901
100%