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.

Where the land is
Live public mapGift or transfer any SquarePause or cancel anytimeProtected to Feb 2036
Rainforest in the Djarawong forest, Far North Queensland

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).

Rainforest canopy in the Wet Tropics
A Southern Cassowary, the rainforest's largest seed disperser
A frog in the Djarawong rainforest

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 now.

Seedling

Seedling

$99 per month

3 Squares a month · 36 a year

  • Your 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
Per Square $33.00
Most chosen
Sapling

Sapling

$249 per month

9 Squares a month · 108 a year

  • Your 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
Per Square $27.67
Grove

Grove

$499 per month

25 Squares a month · 300 a year

  • Your 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
Per Square $19.96

Every plan also includes

  • 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, and the signature banner their team can use. Yours works the same way.

REACH's company profile on the live map, with their Squares highlighted in goldREACH's company area on the live map. The gold Squares are theirs, and each one carries its Squareholder's name. Click to open it.
Proud Rainforest Protector email signature bannerThe email signature banner. In your team's signatures it links back to your company profile.

Recognition

Better than another branded water bottle.

A generic branded water bottle on an office desk

Squares do not only carry a name. You can transfer one outright, to a new starter, to a client who renewed, to the speaker who flew a long way to be at your conference. It becomes theirs.

Your logo stays on it. Anyone looking at that Square 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.

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 Djarawong forest, Far North Queensland

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.

What your company receives

A named, mapped area on the live public map, a company profile, and a record of every Square protected in your name.

What it does not

Land ownership, a title deed, development rights, resource extraction rights, financial returns, or any offset or neutrality claim.

Why we draw the line there

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.

7,683 Squares protected
1,681 Protectors
40 countries
Feb 2036 protected to

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.

REACHEnergyLabEnvirolapseLife Centred Design LabThe Little Wild Library

Good to know

Questions

When can we start?
We are setting up the first group of companies now. Register your interest and we will come back to you with the details and a start date, usually the same working day.
How is this different from buying biodiversity credits?
A credit is priced per square metre, bought once, and usually exists to satisfy a framework. This is closer to a membership. Your area grows every month, and you can hand a Square to a person with their own certificate and map link. If what you need is a registry verified credit for a compliance obligation, we are the wrong supplier and would rather say so now.
Is it tax deductible?
You are buying something, not donating. Your company receives Squares, a profile page, and gifts you can hand to staff and clients, so most businesses treat this the way they treat recognition or marketing spend: an ordinary operating expense. Your accountant can confirm how it applies to you.
What happens if we cancel?
Your existing Squares stay protected to the end of the term. Cancelling stops future monthly additions and nothing else. Your company keeps its area on the map.
Can we use this in our sustainability reporting?
Yes, for what it is. You can report Squares funded, the project, the partner, the protection term, and the CO2e and water measured across your area. A Square protects forest that is already standing, which makes it a record of protection rather than an offset or a neutrality claim. It reads best alongside your emissions work rather than against it.
How long is each Square protected?
This project's conservation licence runs to February 2036, about ten years. Once a Square is added it stays protected for the rest of that term. Other projects run on their own timelines.
Who can we give Squares to?
Anyone with an email address. Staff, clients, members, speakers, the person who introduced you to us.

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.

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Tell us where to send the details.

Leave your email and one of us will reply, usually the same working day.

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