Go Forest, Gent (2026)

15/10/2026

💛 DAG TEGEN KANKER 💛

Leven met en na kanker. Voor zo’n 365.000 Vlamingen is dit vandaag de realiteit. Laten we hen tonen dat ze er niet alleen voor staan.

Vandaag vindt het eerste event van ‘Breathe for cancer’ plaats in Gent. Het is een initiatief waarbij verhalen van mensen gedeeld worden en waarbij er geld wordt ingezameld voor meer kankeronderzoek (CRIG) en voor natuurherstel.

In een open en moedig interview getuigen Mathias en Ilse over het belang van onderzoek en hoe hen dat meer tijd heeft gegeven met hun zoon Tore.

🤍 Bekijk het volledige interview op het Go Forest YouTube Kanaal.

💚 Steun het initiatief hier: goforest.be/breathe-for-cancer

15/10/2026

🌱 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗮𝗺𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁

Last week was Week of the Forest, so we want to highlight some key messages from the FAO report: The State of the World's Forests 2026.

People at the centre
Restoration works when local communities and indigenous people shape it. That is why we always work with local partner organizations. They know the landscape best, are trusted within the community and stay in continuous dialogue with the people living there. Combining Indigenous and local knowledge with science makes restoration stronger.

Balancing ecosystem functions
Forests serve many functions at once. Our projects are located in landscapes where ecological functions, production systems and livelihoods interact, and it is important to approach them in a balanced way. Production in particular is often misunderstood by companies, yet it needs to be part of that balance in forest restoration. Understanding how all these functions fit together is key to restoration that lasts.

Finance that fits restoration
Closing the funding gap will take a combination of public and private finance. At Go Forest we focus mainly on mobilizing private funding. Too often, we still see a gap between how a company impacts and depends on nature and the restoration efforts it supports.

More than hectares
Hectares alone do not show whether ecosystems and livelihoods are recovering. That is why we are developing an additional offering for companies, covering impacts such as biodiversity, water management and soil quality.

Why it pays off for your business
Restoration should be seen as an investment rather than a cost. It reduces physical, regulatory, reputational and financial risks, strengthens your value chain and prepares your company for stricter sustainability requirements.

👉 Read the full blog post: https://goforest.be/2026/10/06/moving-from-ambition-to-impact-in-forest-restoration/
👉 Read the FAO report: https://www.fao.org/publications/fao-flagship-publications/the-state-of-the-worlds-forests/en

09/10/2026

🌱 𝗔𝘀 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸 (𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝘃𝗮𝗻 𝗵𝗲𝘁 𝗕𝗼𝘀) 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗻𝗱, 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲'𝘀 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗸𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗺 𝗴𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴.

Plant a tree with Go Forest and help restore forests across the globe, one tree at a time.

👉 https://goforest.be/webshop/

05/10/2026

🌱 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲: 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗙𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗿.

What happens beneath our feet when we walk through a forest?
This Forest Week (happening now!) takes us on an Expedition Forest Floor: a journey below the surface, where soil, roots and ecosystems come together to make forests possible.

The forest floor may seem quiet and invisible, but it is where much of the story begins. And that story looks very different around the world.

- In South Africa, we are restoring critically endangered sand forest in Maputaland. Despite growing on sandy, nutrient-poor soils, this unique ecosystem is home to 84 plant species found nowhere else on Earth.
- In the Democratic Republic of Congo, native trees such as wenge and afromosia are planted on degraded savannah soils. These trees help prevent further degradation and, over time, reduce pressure on the country’s old-growth forests.
- In Madagascar, we are working with the salty mud of Bombetoka Bay. After the area lost 34% of its mangroves between 1990 and 2000, the project is replanting 2.4 million mangroves across 400 hectares. Their roots stabilise the mud and help restore spawning grounds for fish, crabs and shrimp.
- In India, smallholder families in West Bengal’s Jhargram district are planting fruit trees on barren, lateritic soils. The trees help rebuild poor soils while also providing food and income.

👊 These projects remind us that forest restoration is never just about planting trees. It is about understanding the land beneath them, restoring the conditions in which ecosystems can thrive, and creating benefits for people and nature alike.

This Forest Week, let’s look beyond the trees and take a closer look at what lies beneath.

🪱 Welcome to the Expedition Forest Floor.

01/10/2026

🌳 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗮 𝗯𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗯𝗲 𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘆.

With the next planting season approaching, now is a good time to start thinking about how your company can make an impact through trees.

And with ‘Week van het Bos’ (Forest Week) starting in just a few days, there’s an even better reason to turn that intention into action.

👊 You can get started in just a few clicks:

Choose how often you want to plant, select the type of project you want to support, and submit your details. From there, we take care of the planting and you can follow your impact through your Impact Dashboard (find examples here: go-impact.be/en/partners).

And if you prefer to talk things through first, that’s just as easy. We’re happy to set up a meeting, understand what fits your business, and help you shape your planting programme for the coming season.

💪 So whether you want to get started in a few clicks or sit down with us first, there’s no need to make it complicated.

🌿 The next planting season is coming. Let’s get your trees planted.
Start online at goforest.be/plant or get in touch with our team via [email protected]

29/09/2026

🌿 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗮𝘀 & 𝗜𝗹𝘀𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿.

As you may have already noticed on our channels, we are proud to be a nature partner of the cancer initiative ‘Breathe for Cancer’.

Last week, we had the honour of speaking with Mathias Sercu and his wife, Ilse Vanbrabant, who lost their son Tore to a rare form of cancer.

💚 It was an incredibly warm conversation with two truly inspiring people. We deeply admire the way they make this difficult topic more open for discussion and create support by sharing their story.

We wish them tremendous strength and are incredibly grateful that, despite all the pain and grief, they have chosen to be ambassadors for Breathe for Cancer.

In this short video, they explain why they find trees so powerful.

🥰 Would you like to watch the full conversation?
https://youtu.be/VOdvYZnhm_I

Learn more about the initiative here: https://goforest.be/breathe-for-cancer/

23/09/2026

🌱 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲.

Let’s grow something meaningful together.
Nature in Belgium is preparing for one of its most important moments of the year: planting season.

We believe restoring forests and natural ecosystems is not just about planting trees. It’s about creating healthier soils, supporting biodiversity, supporting ecosystems and building a more resilient landscape for future generations.
And we believe businesses have an important role to play.

🤝 We’re looking for companies that want to turn sustainability commitments into tangible impact.

By partnering with us, your company can contribute to local nature restoration projects in Belgium (and in the South!) while engaging employees, customers and stakeholders around something positive and concrete.

But the impact goes beyond nature.

For businesses, nature restoration can mean:
→ Creating a credible and tangible sustainability story
→ Engaging employees around a shared purpose
→ Supporting relationships with customers and partners
→ Supporting biodiversity and climate resilience
→ Turning sustainability ambitions into action on the ground
→ Creating measurable, long-term positive impact

This planting season, we want to work with companies that are ready to go beyond talking about sustainability and start growing it.

🌱 Let’s restore Belgian nature together.

Interested in exploring a partnership for the upcoming planting season?
Get in touch with us: [email protected] or book a meeting here: calendly.com/goforest

22/09/2026

💚 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿.

We are proud to be the nature partner of Breathe for Cancer, an initiative that brings together the stories of people who have been touched by cancer and connects each story to something that continues to grow: a tree.

For every story, a tree can be planted: for yourself, someone you love, or someone you miss.

We take care of the planting, maintenance and monitoring of the trees. 50% of the proceeds support Cancer Research Institute Ghent (CRIG) and cancer research, while the other 50% goes towards nature restoration.

It’s a simple but powerful idea:

One story.
One tree.
Together, a forest.

👉 Want to plant a story?

You can support Breathe for Cancer by planting a tree in memory of someone, in support of someone going through cancer, or simply as a symbol of hope and connection. Go to this link: https://goforest.be/breathe-for-cancer/

18/09/2026

🇧🇪 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘁𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝗲𝗹𝗴𝗶𝘂𝗺.

And once again, we came back with so much energy.
Because when you stand in a forest and see what is happening on the ground, you realise that forest restoration is about so much more than planting trees.
Sometimes, the best thing we can do for a forest is to help the forest regenerate itself.

That can mean protecting existing forests, supporting natural regeneration, managing competing vegetation, protecting young trees from browsing, improving forest structure, increasing species diversity, and creating the conditions for ecosystems to become healthier and more resilient.
This is where approaches such as Assisted Natural Regeneration (ANR) become so valuable: rather than replacing nature, we help nature do what it already knows how to do.

💪 And this matters more than ever.

European forests are facing increasing pressure from drought, heat, storms, pests and changing precipitation patterns. At the same time, forests with greater biodiversity, structural diversity and adaptive capacity are better equipped to withstand and recover from these pressures.

So for us, the question is not simply:
“How many trees can we plant?”

It is:
“How can we help forests thrive for the decades to come?”

For the coming planting season, we are therefore looking for companies that want to support valuable nature restoration projects focused on resilience, biodiversity and the enrichment of existing ecosystems.

Projects where the impact goes beyond a number on a certificate.
But you will definitely receive a certificate 😉.
Projects where we can protect, restore, regenerate and support forests, while giving companies a tangible way to contribute and communicate about that impact.

🌳 If your company is looking to invest in nature this coming season, we would love to show you what is possible.

💚 Let’s invest in forests that can thrive.

[email protected] - www.goforest.be

17/09/2026

🌱 𝗦𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗸𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴.

We’re proud to share that Go Forest is the nature partner of Breathe for Cancer.
𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿 is an initiative that brings together the stories of people who have been touched by cancer: those living with it, those standing beside someone they love, and those who carry the memory of someone they’ve lost.

💚 The idea is simple: you can plant a tree for a story.
For yourself. For someone you love. Or for someone you miss.

But this tree represents more than nature.
Every donation is divided equally:
🌱 50% goes to planting and restoring nature through Go Forest
🔬 50% goes to cancer research through Cancer Research Institute Ghent (CRIG)

So when you plant a tree, you’re not only helping a story grow into something tangible in nature. You’re also contributing to research that can help create new insights and treatments for cancer.
One story. One tree. Two impacts.

In the video below, Annouk Westerling, initiator of Breathe for Cancer, shares why the initiative is called Breathe for Cancer.

🍀 We hope her words make you pause, breathe, and perhaps think of a story of your own.

You can support the initiative via this link: https://goforest.be/breathe-for-cancer/

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