Why relocate trees?
Set a good example
Trees have a great symbolic value. If you want to cut down a tree as a local government because of certain complaints, you sometimes create even more problems. By moving a tree, you provide a solution where everyone wins, including nature.
Give valuable trees a better life
You don't move an old tree , as the Dutch saying goes. Well, that should at least be taken with a pinch of salt. By moving a tree professionally and intelligently, you can save its life and sometimes even improve it.
Valuable trees should be relocated, not cut down
© Robin Fasseur
Trees are one of the most important sources of life on our planet, so we should treat them with respect. Even if they get in the way. Those who don't will more than once meet with protests.
The good news is that there is a solution for trees that have to make way. Thanks to new techniques, we are able to relocate even the largest behemoths professionally.
This way your construction or infrastructure project can continue while preserving the tree.
How we work
We start with a preliminary investigation to see where and in what way the tree is rooted. If the preliminary investigation is positive, we draw up a customized budget and go for it.
If desired and relevant, we roll out a professional communication plan. Trees are often given an important symbolic value, so we advise you to strategically inform your target audience about your project. This way you can increase your support base.
The movement itself can be done quickly: we work with a sophisticated sliding technique , where we place heavy steel plates under the tree, loosen the root ball from its familiar soil and set the tree in motion in the right way. We work with crawler excavators and chains.
Next, the new location is prepared. We can pull the treee in any direction, as long as the root ball has been professionally loosened from the ground.
Once the tree is in place, it is given a customised after-treatment .
The team behind Tree Forward
WeForward
WeForward was founded by Frank Missoul and Dajo Hermans. The WeForward ecosystem houses two companies that are closely related to Tree Forward:
Forest Forward : the Belgian pioneer in local corporate forests and nature.
Story Forward: a communications agency that focuses on socially relevant stories and sustainability.
Tree Forward is a project by WeForward and Wannes Real Estate. Both parties joined forces to give their best for every tree relocation.
Wannes Real Estate
Wannes Real Estate is a project developer who, together with partners, builds environments where they themselves would like to live or work. And in many cases, these are green places.
The company is an expert by experience and moved a gigantic oak tree for a project in Brasschaat in early 2025. Story Forward took care of the communication. It was the seed of Tree Forward.
Case: 150 year old oak
In 2025 in Brasschaat we moved an old oak tree of 150 years old that had been standing between the concrete for decades and probably never could have lived to its full potential. Our professional partners with years of international experience used a sophisticated sliding technique to move the tree carefully but efficiently. Now the oak tree stands proudly in a park a few dozen meters behind its old place, where it can probably easily live for another 200 years.
Before
The oak stood between the concrete for decades.
During
The concrete was removed, the soil around the root was excavated, and the tree was carefully moved to a new location.
After
The oak will be in full bloom in the spring of 2025, dozens of meters from its old place. Ready to live on for decades to come.
We think along with you
Are you a project developer or do you work for a local government? Then sooner or later you will probably be faced with the question: what do we do with this tree?
We are here for anyone who is in doubt about what would be best: cutting down or relocating. Every tree that can be saved, we will save, in everyone's interest.
Please contact us using this form and we will review your question as soon as possible.
