For businesses
Your company's rainforest, growing every month.
Protect a real, mapped area of Queensland's Wet Tropics. Your area grows every month, and any Square in it can be handed to someone who deserves it.
Give your people a gift they will still talk about, and a sustainability story you can prove on a live map. Your company protects a real, mapped area of Queensland's Wet Tropics, and it grows every month.
108 Given to people
31
Already protecting
Companies with an area on the map.
Each has a named area that grows month by month, visible to anyone with the link.
Why it matters
Keep the oldest rainforest standing.
No. 5
Australia's global rank for cutting down forests.
WWF maps 24 deforestation fronts around the world. Eastern Australia is one of them, the only one in a developed country. Protecting forest that is already standing is the most direct way to help.
The Wet Tropics is where that pressure meets the oldest rainforest on earth. Southern Cassowaries live here, and they plant it: dozens of rainforest trees have fruit too big for any other animal to swallow and carry. Every Square your company protects is forest that stays standing.
Sources: WWF, Deforestation Fronts (2021) · ABC News (2021).
Plans
Pick a level. Change it whenever.
Same rate as our public packs, billed monthly instead of upfront. We are opening this to a first group of companies; REACH, EnergyLab, Envirolapse and The Little Wild Library are already on the map.
Seedling
3 Squares a month · 36 a year
Best for small teams.
Sapling
9 Squares a month · 108 a year
Best for customer-facing brands.
Grove
25 Squares a month · 300 a year
Best for larger organisations.
Every plan also includes
- Your company's area on the live public map
- Gift Squares to staff and clients
- Your logo stays on every Square you gift
- Monthly update from the forest
- Company profile page with your running totals
- CO₂e and water measured across your area
- Squareholder certificate in your company name
- "Proud Rainforest Protector" email signature banner
- GPS coordinates for every Square
- Pause, change level, or cancel anytime
Prices in AUD, including GST. Need more than 25 Squares a month? Email hello@squarebysquare.org.
What's included
What arrives every month.
Your area on the live map
Your company's Squares sit on the public map, each with its own GPS coordinates. Send the link to anyone. They do not need an account to look.
Squares you can hand over
Any Square in your allocation can be transferred to a person outright. Your logo stays on it, and it links back to your company profile.
An update from the forest
One email a month. A photo, your current totals, and the CO₂e and water measured across your area.
In practice
What it looks like.
This is REACH's profile on the live map. Yours would work the same way.
Recognition
Better than another branded water bottle.
If your employer gave you one of these as a gift this year, which would you most want?
From our poll on LinkedIn, earlier this year. Percentages are LinkedIn's rounding, so they total 101%.
Ali LOVED the gift. It brought her to tears… the good kind ☺️
Squares do not only carry a name. You can transfer one outright, to a new starter, to a client who renewed, to a colleague on their last day. It becomes theirs.
Your logo stays on the Square. Anyone looking at it on the map sees who protected it first, and can click through to your company profile and the rest of your area.
A Square you hand over in March is still pointing back at you in 2036.
Every teammate carries it further
A "Proud Rainforest Protector" signature banner links back to your company's live profile, in every email your team sends.
Speak soon,
Ebonnie S.
REACH
The banner in Ebonnie's signature opens REACH's live profile. Try it.
Getting started
How it works.
Tell us you are interested
Leave your email. We come back to you personally, usually the same working day.
We set up your company area
Your name and logo go on the live map, along with your first Squares and your certificate.
Your area grows each month
Hand any of the new Squares to someone whenever you like.
The people
Who you will deal with.
Square by Square is a small team. When you register interest, one of these two reads it and replies.
Henk Kleynhans
Co-founder
Founded Square by Square and built the live map. He is the one to talk to about how the programme could work for your company.
Emely Junker
Co-founder, operations
Runs every order. Your Squares, your certificate and every Square you gift go through Emely.
Where this happens
Where the Squares actually are.
The Djarawong forest, in Far North Queensland, inside the UNESCO Wet Tropics World Heritage Area. It is the oldest continuously surviving rainforest on earth, and the cassowaries there are doing most of the replanting.
Every Square has GPS coordinates and sits inside a conservation licence running to February 2036. A local partner does the on-ground stewardship.
A named, mapped area on the live public map, a company profile, and a record of every Square protected in your name.
Land ownership, a title deed, development rights, resource extraction rights, financial returns, or any offset or neutrality claim.
Legal control stays with the conservation partner best placed to manage the land. That protects your company, the partner, and the people who live there. We would rather fund stewardship than turn a forest into something to speculate on.
Good to know
Questions
When can we start?
How is this different from buying biodiversity credits?
Is it tax deductible?
What happens if we cancel?
Can we use this in our sustainability reporting?
How long is each Square protected?
Who can we give Squares to?
Interested?
We are opening this to a first group of companies.
Leave your email and we will come back to you personally with the details.