Named · GPS-tagged · Yours for generations
Your name. A living giant. Still standing long after we're gone.
Secure a named Giant Sequoia on a sponsored 100m² plot in our UK forest reserve - maintained, measured, and yours to visit for generations.
Your Sequoia on a sponsored 100m² plot
Individually named + GPS-tagged to your exact coordinates
Engraved wooden plaque marking your tree
3:1 Native planting: oak, rowan & silver birch
Nurse crop protection: Scots Pine, Douglas Fir, & Norway Spruce
Independently audited carbon data (Soil Association)
Satellite + drone growth updates every 5 years
Visit your tree anytime
Your family legacy for generations to come.
Includes naming, GPS registration, plaque, and lifetime site access
Coordinates confirmed at planting. One-off contribution or payment plans available.
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WHAT YOU'RE SECURING
Three things. One permanent legacy.
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Your Sponsored Land
A sponsored 100m² plot in a Great Reserve forest. GPS-tagged. Yours to visit whenever you like, for as long as it stands - which, with a Giant Sequoia at its heart, is up to 3,000 years.
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Your Tree
One Giant Sequoia and 3 natives - the largest living thing on earth by volume. Surrounded by oak, rowan, and silver birch from day one, with Scots Pine and Norway Spruce as nurse crop protection during the early years.
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Your Record
A handcrafted engraved wooden plaque with your coordinates and planting date. Plus independently audited satellite growth data sent every five years - canopy measurements, height records, and verified carbon capture figures. On the record for centuries.
THE GROVE - ABERGAVENNY
GENETICS SOURCED FROM Archangel Ancient Tree Archive
PLANTING DAY
HOW IT WORKS
From decision to living legacy
1
You secure your place
Complete your purchase. A short form collects your name for the plaque, your preferred planting date, and whether you'd like to plant it yourself or have our team do it.
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We plant and tag it
Your Sequoia goes into the ground in one of our Welsh reserves, surrounded by native trees. It's GPS-tagged and added to our permanent register the same day.
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Your legacy kit arrives
Your handcrafted wooden plaque - engraved with your name, GPS coordinates, and planting date.
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Watch it grow for centuries
Every 5 years: verified satellite and drone data, canopy measurements, carbon capture figures, and height records. Independently audited.
VERIFICATION
Not estimated. Not averaged. Independently verified.
Most tree-planting schemes ask you to take their word for it. We work with organisations that don't.
Your Sequoia's growth is measured every five years using Treeconomy's Sherwood LiDAR system - a drone-based technology that maps canopy volume and converts it into independently verifiable carbon removal data.
Every result is audited by the Soil Association under FSC® Ecosystem Services standards. Your tree's carbon contribution is recorded against an external scientific standard - not an internal estimate.
From planting day to centuries from now, everything is on the record.
350+
Tons of CO₂ captured over a single Sequoia's lifetime - independently measured, not estimated
5 yr
Measurement interval - satellite and drone LiDAR scans tracking canopy growth and carbon data
100%
Of patron trees are GPS-tagged, registered, and tracked within our verified forestry system
THE SPECIES
Why a Giant Sequoia - not just native trees?
Giant Sequoias are the largest living things on earth by volume. They are known to live for up to 3,000 years and do not die of old age. In terms of long-term carbon storage, they are unmatched. That matters more than it sounds. Because carbon is not just about how much is captured - it is about how long it stays there. Most native trees store carbon for decades, then release it.
A Sequoia holds it for centuries, even millennia - turning short-term cycles into long-term storage.
In Wales, they thrive. Sequoia's have been growing here since 1853, with thousands now established. With no wildfire, they cannot self-seed or spread, making them non-invasive by design. This is assisted migration - placing the right species in the right conditions.
Every forest is designed. Your Sequoia grows alongside native trees from day one, with nurse crops protecting it early on.
Native trees:
Nurse crops:
3,000 yr
Current known Sequoia lifespan - does not die of old age
350+ t
Tonnes of carbon stored over a single Sequoia's lifetime
100 m²
Your personal sponsored plot - GPS-tagged from day one
5 yr
Measurement interval — drone LiDAR growth data sent to you
QUESTIONS
What patrons ask before securing their place
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We have a replacement policy for trees that don't establish in their early years. Our survival rates are high, and once established, Giant Sequoias are among the most resilient tree species on earth.
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When you sign up as a Giant Sequoia Patron you will be invited to come and plant your tree on one of our planting days. If you are unable to plant yourself, a pre-planted tree will be allocated to you. Thereafter you will be the registered owner and be provided with a certificate with the tree(s) coordinates included.
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No. This is a one-time purchase. There are no ongoing fees or recurring charges.
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Yes. Your GPS coordinates allow you to locate your tree. Many patrons visit, some regularly, some across generations.
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Yes. Your tree and its record can be passed down. It is designed to be something that outlasts you.
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Our primary goal is to create a network of old growth Giant Sequoias in the UK to replicate what few are left in their native habitat in the USA. Effectively an insurance against the worsening impacts of climate change that has brought about droughts, superheated wildfires, and greater bark beetle fatalities. Sequoias were native to the UK pre-Ice Age. More recently they returned here during the Victorian period by those facinated by their size and magnificence. We now have many thousands of Sequoias in the UK and they have proven to be entirely non-invasive. We get asked regularly about why we are not planting exclusively native species. Our response is that we are facing a very real climate emergency caused by an increasing amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. We need to find a response to this escalating issue that is in proportion to the cause, the mass burning of fossil fuels. There is currently no industrial viable solution on offer, so we must turn to nature and plant trees. The primary resource that trees use up that is in scarce supply is land, or more accurately land with owners who are willing to give up any commercial use and dedicate their asset to tree planting for carbon capture. As land is the limiting factor for tree planting, we must plant trees that are the most efficient at carbon capture per acre. The species most capable of carbon capture per acre is the Giant Sequoia, due to its massive volume accumulated over time. Even over a 100 year period, a Sequoia grove can capture in the region of 10x more CO2 vs. a native tree woodland. We are not ignoring the plight of native trees, we care deeply about them and would never cut down or harm a native woodland. In fact we plant three native trees for each Sequoia at our sites to promote biodiversity. Oak is our predominant tree of choice given it supports more biodiversity than any other native tree. Two little known facts are that Giant Sequoias were once native to the UK pre-ice age, and they do not propagate in the UK due to a lack of wildfires needed to open their seed cones. They are totally non-invasive for that reason. Bottom line is the world is heating up at an alarming rate. That in itself is a major threat to UK native woodlands. Our project is a response to today’s climate emergency by unleashing the power of the most mighty CO2 capturing tree on earth, that not only removes CO2, but holds onto it for over 1000 years. We care deeply about native trees, but we also care about our planet, and this is our way of doing the maximum to save it, and the diversity of species and ecosystems that it supports. We are looking big picture, and long term. To put this in further context, according to Timothy J. Fahey, professor of ecology in the department of natural resources at Cornell University, “An approximate value for a 50-year-old oak forest would be 30,000 pounds of carbon dioxide sequestered per acre,”. That is 15 tonnes. By comparison a Giant Sequoia grove will be closer to 200 tonnes over the same period, using UK growth rates seen in Sequoias that have been in the UK for over 150 years. Reference link here: https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/04/science/how-many-pounds-of-carbon-dioxide-does-our-forest-absorb.html
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No. They cannot self-seed in Wales because their cones require intense wildfire heat to open. They do not spread.
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Each tree is GPS-tagged and registered. You receive coordinates and updates, and data is independently verified.
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We use satellite and drone-based LiDAR systems to measure canopy growth and convert it into verifiable carbon data.
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Your tree is planted during the next available planting window, and your details are registered shortly after.
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Secure a named Giant Sequoia on a sponsored 100m² plot in our UK forest reserve - maintained, measured, and yours to visit for generations.
- Your Sequoia on a sponsored 100m² plot
- Individually named + GPS-tagged to your exact coordinates
- Engraved wooden plaque marking your tree
- 3:1 Native planting: oak, rowan & silver birch
- Nurse crop protection: Scots Pine, Norway Spruce & Douglas Fir
- Independently audited carbon data (Soil Association)
- Satellite + drone growth updates every 5 years
- Visit your tree anytime
- Your family legacy for generations to come.
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Henry Emson
Founder, The Great Reserve
"We plant, monitor, and steward every forest ourselves. Every patron's tree is personally overseen by our team. We are planting a 1000 year forest, permanence is on our DNA, as well as the Sequoia's."
Meet the team
Henry Emson
Founder / CEO
The Great Reserve began with me planting Giant Sequoias for my two young children, starting their journey to a carbon neutral life as early as possible.
Concerned about the global climate crisis and the scale of the action needed I wanted to offer planting Sequoia trees to others, to become part of the solution rather than the problem.
We’ve now set a course to plant 100,000 Giant Sequoias in the UK to replicate what few are left in the US, creating a new safe haven for them via assisted migration, helping them to thrive for generations to come.
The Great Reserve began with me planting Giant Sequoias for my two young children, starting their journey to a carbon neutral life as early as possible.
Concerned about the global climate crisis and the scale of the action needed I wanted to offer planting Sequoia trees to others, to become part of the solution rather than the problem.
We’ve now set a course to plant 100,000 Giant Sequoias in the UK to replicate what few are left in the US, creating a new safe haven for them via assisted migration, helping them to thrive for generations to come.
Jill Faircloth
Director
I came to join the project convinced that Giant Sequoias could and should play an important role in tackling climate change.
I was lucky enough to live for a short time in California and walk through forests of colossal Sequoias. It’s a genuinely awe inspiring experience.
I know that these majestic trees can capture carbon at a rate that far exceeds our native trees which makes them incredible partners in positive change. Sadly, I also know that the species is under threat in its native Sierra Nevada and we need to safeguard these beautiful and remarkable giants.
I came to join the project convinced that Giant Sequoias could and should play an important role in tackling climate change.
I was lucky enough to live for a short time in California and walk through forests of colossal Sequoias. It’s a genuinely awe inspiring experience.
I know that these majestic trees can capture carbon at a rate that far exceeds our native trees which makes them incredible partners in positive change. Sadly, I also know that the species is under threat in its native Sierra Nevada and we need to safeguard these beautiful and remarkable giants.
Bob Yeager
Director
Bob joined the team as someone who had been directly impacted by the recent wildfires that took hold in Sequoia National Park.
He was part of the Sequoia Crest community and was one of the home owners that lost their property to the fires, as well as witnessing the loss of some treasured old growth Giant Sequoias that were destroyed.
Bob helped recover the area by leading a replanting initiative in the area, sourcing sequoia saplings from Daid Milarch and his team at The Archangel Ancient Tree Archive.
Bob joined the team as someone who had been directly impacted by the recent wildfires that took hold in Sequoia National Park.
He was part of the Sequoia Crest community and was one of the home owners that lost their property to the fires, as well as witnessing the loss of some treasured old growth Giant Sequoias that were destroyed.
Bob helped recover the area by leading a replanting initiative in the area, sourcing sequoia saplings from Daid Milarch and his team at The Archangel Ancient Tree Archive.