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A real tree. Your name. Alpedrinha, Portugal. Your pre-order is what funds this plan into existence — the land, the water, the planting. Nothing happens here without it.
REAL TREE · PLANTED DIRECTLY IN THE GROUND · A PHOTO WITH YOUR NAME
YOUR PRE-ORDER FUNDS THIS PLAN · WE'LL CONFIRM DETAILS BY EMAIL
Scientists confirm it. The numbers prove it. The world your grandchildren inherit depends entirely on decisions made right now — by people like you.
Three steps. No nursery, no holding pattern — your tree goes straight into the ground.
Your pre-order is what makes this whole plan possible. It funds the land, the water supply, and the planting. Choose your species. Name it. Get your certificate by email instantly.
No nursery, no waiting room. Your tree goes directly into the earth in Alpedrinha, tagged with your name from day one.
Your €5/month goes straight back into Sylva — buying more land, building water supply, and planting more trees across Portugal, one grove at a time.
No carbon credits. No vague promises. A real tree, planted in real soil, with your name on it forever.
€50. One tree. Your name. Portugal. A certificate. A legacy that outlives you. This is the most meaningful thing you can do today.
This is not a political opinion. This is what science confirms. And it is the reason a 19-year-old in Portugal decided that waiting for someone else to fix it wasn't good enough anymore.
Alpedrinha sits in the hills of Castelo Branco, Portugal — land that has been cleared, dried out, and left mostly quiet for decades. Stand there today and you'll see scrubland, exposed soil, and the kind of silence that comes from an ecosystem that lost most of its trees a long time ago. It doesn't have to stay that way.
The idea behind Sylva is almost embarrassingly simple: buy the land, get water to it, and put trees in the ground — real ones, thousands of them, each one registered to a real person, in a real place. Not a symbolic gesture. Not a certificate that represents a tree somewhere that may or may not exist. An actual forest, growing, on actual land, because actual people decided to fund it into existence.
That's the part most people don't think about when they picture "planting a tree": before a single sapling goes into the ground, someone has to own the land, and that land has to have water — boreholes, tanks, ponds and swales, irrigation lines — or nothing planted on it survives its first dry Portuguese summer. That's the unglamorous, essential work this whole plan depends on. It's also exactly what your pre-order and every donation goes toward.
You don't need to feel guilty for existing. But you need to understand the equation — and what a single tree does to rebalance it.
When you pre-order a Sylva tree, you're not buying a product. You're funding the part of this plan that makes everything else possible — the land, the water, the roots in the ground.
Your tree will produce oxygen long after you are gone. It will absorb carbon your grandchildren would otherwise inhale. It will shelter wildlife and cool the land around it. It is the most permanent, most real thing you can do today — and it only happens because you funded it.
Not tomorrow. Not when someone else does it first. Today. €50. One tree. Real change.
Sylva begins with a simple idea: what if people could do something today that would still be growing decades from now?
A tree can outlive the moment it is planted. It can provide shade, shelter wildlife, improve the landscape and become part of a place that future generations inherit. That is what Sylva is about.
We are not trying to create another website where people make a donation and never know what happened to it. We want to create something real, personal and lasting — a real tree, on real land, in Portugal, with a real connection between the person who supports it and the tree that grows.
The world is full of things that are temporary. We wanted to create something different — something that gives people the opportunity to put their money toward something alive. Something that grows. Something they can return to. Something they can give to someone they love.
When someone supports a Sylva tree, they should know where their tree is, what tree they supported, what it means, and how it is growing — and eventually, they should be able to visit it.
The current Sylva concept is based around planting 5,000 real trees in Alpedrinha, Portugal, with trees connected to certificates and GPS coordinates. That is the foundation of everything we are building.
Plant real trees and give people a meaningful way to become part of their growth. Someone in another country should be able to support a tree in Portugal. A family should be able to create a grove. Someone should be able to plant a tree in memory of someone they lost.
Years from now, these individual decisions should become something much larger. A forest.
Our first major objective is to establish and grow the Sylva planting project in Alpedrinha, Portugal — a place where the trees are not simply numbers in a database. They are physically there. Growing. Changing. Becoming part of the landscape.
Our initial vision is 5,000 real trees. Five thousand individual trees. Five thousand stories. And when those trees begin to grow together, they become something much bigger than 5,000 separate purchases. They become a forest.
We don't need to launch everything at once. We need to get the foundation right first.
The land, the planting plan, the species, the people and processes to plant and care for the trees — and a system for tracking every one. Every tree gets a tree number, a location, a certificate, and GPS coordinates where applicable. That's the beginning of accountability.
This is your tree. This is where it is. This is what you helped create. Simple, not complicated.
Single Tree — one person, one tree. Family Grove — three trees, named, for a family. Legacy Forest — ten trees, a family name, aerial footage, and a physical nameplate on site.
A birthday gift. An anniversary gift. A wedding gift. A gift for a new baby. Enter a recipient's name at checkout and the certificate is made out to them — because a physical object can be lost, but a tree keeps growing.
Some of the most meaningful trees will be planted in memory of people. A family could visit it, sit beside it, watch it grow, bring their children, and return years later. Not just a product — a living memory.
As the number of trees grows, the people behind them should be able to follow the project, see planting updates and photographs, and eventually meet each other. One person might only support one tree — but together, thousands of people can create a forest.
The ultimate goal is to make the connection physical: walk through the land, find your tree, see your family grove, bring friends and children. Imagine supporting a tree from another country, then years later, standing beside it.
5,000 is the beginning, not the end. Once the first project is established, we look at more land, more trees, more groves — but only once we've proven Sylva can do one thing extremely well.
If we say there is a tree, there needs to be a tree. If we say a tree has a location, that information needs to be accurate. If we say money supports planting, we need to know how much and where it goes. We want Sylva to grow because people trust it — not because we make the biggest promises.
Opening the Sylva map years from now and seeing thousands of trees. A family visiting their grove. Someone receiving a tree as a birthday gift and remembering who gave it to them years later. Children visiting trees their parents supported before they were born. A landscape changed because thousands of people decided to do something small — one tree, then another, then another — until eventually, it is a forest.
We will start with real land. We will plant real trees. We will give people a real connection to them — because the best thing we can leave behind isn't another product. It's something alive.
Your tree is planted directly in the ground in Alpedrinha, Portugal. A real photo with your name on it. An official certificate. And your pre-order is what makes the whole plan real.
Every plan includes the pre-order and an official certificate per tree. The monthly plan funds new land and new trees. Cancel anytime.
🎁 Perfect gift — enter the recipient's name at checkout. Extraordinary for birthdays, anniversaries, and memorials.
€50. One tree. Your name. Portugal. A certificate. A legacy that outlives you.
Before a single tree can go in the ground, someone has to buy the land. And before that land can keep anything alive through a Portuguese summer, it needs water. That's what a donation actually funds.
Here's the part of this plan that doesn't make it into a pretty product photo: land in Alpedrinha doesn't come with water already running to it. To turn dry, cleared scrubland into a forest that actually survives, we need to drill boreholes, install water tanks, dig ponds and swales, and lay irrigation lines across every hectare we plant. Skip that step, and the trees don't make it through their first summer — no matter how many of them we plant.
That infrastructure — the land itself, the boreholes, the tanks, the ponds and swales, the irrigation — is the foundation everything else stands on. It's also the one part of this plan that a single €50 pre-order can't fully cover on its own, especially this early. That's exactly where a donation comes in.
If you've pre-ordered a tree, your optional €5–€35/month plan keeps expanding the forest over time — funding new land and new trees, one grove at a time, for as long as you keep it running. A donation is a one-time, direct contribution that goes straight into the land and water infrastructure itself — the groundwork the whole forest depends on, regardless of how many monthly plans are active. Neither replaces the other. Both are how this plan actually gets built.
YOUR DONATION FUNDS LAND & WATER · WE'LL CONFIRM DETAILS BY EMAIL
Land acquisition in Alpedrinha, Castelo Branco. Boreholes, water tanks, ponds and swales. Irrigation lines run out to every planted plot. Nothing is taken out for fees, marketing, or overhead — Sylva covers its own running costs separately, through tree pre-orders. A donation is the most direct way to help: it becomes land, it becomes water, and together those become a forest that survives.
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Only 5,000 of 5,000 trees available. Your pre-order funds this plan into existence.
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