Jesse Schoenmakers
Environmental Expert
From trees to true impact
Measure more than trees. Understand what forests actually do.
Forests do more than store carbon
We help the people restoring them prove it.
Planting trees is the beginning, not the end. The harder question, the one funders, corporates, and policymakers are increasingly asking, is: what is this forest actually doing?
Is it improving watershed health? Supporting biodiversity? Staying resilient as the climate shifts? Delivering on the promises made when the project was funded?
Most projects can’t answer that. Not because the impact isn’t there, but because the tools to measure and communicate it are fragmented, technical, and hard to trust.
That’s what Terramira is here to change.
From monitoring to meaning
We combine satellite data, hydrological modelling, and climate intelligence into a single, coherent picture of forest health: one that goes beyond tree counts to show what forests actually contribute to water, biodiversity, and climate.
We partner to bring intelligence that helps restoration projects survive, grow, and matter. Even as the conditions around them change.
What we measure
- Forest change over time: track vegetation development and restoration progress
- Water impact: understand how forests influence watersheds, infiltration, and flow
- Biodiversity co-benefits: connect forest health to habitat and species outcomes
- Climate scenarios: model how forests are likely to perform under future climate conditions, and where intervention has the most resilience value
- Ecological context: situate project data within broader landscape dynamics
- Integrated impact: translate all of it into one clear, credible impact story
Why it matters now
Reporting expectations are tightening. Carbon markets are under pressure. Funders are looking for co-benefit outcomes from their funding. And as climate change accelerates, The question is not only what role this forest plays today, but also what role it will play in 20 years’ time, and whether it is in the right place at all.
The organizations that will secure the next round of investment are the ones who can answer those questions clearly and credibly.
Terramira helps you be one of them.
Make impact tangible
Better decision-making
Understand where interventions have the most effect.
Integrated insight
Combine forest, water and biodiversity into one story.
Future-ready reporting
Prepare for evolving standards in MRV and sustainability.
For everyone invested in forests
Foundations & funders
Know whether the projects you support are delivering real outcomes. But also: understand where the next opportunity lies. We help foundations identify where reforestation, forest management, or protection will have the greatest ecological and hydrological impact, and how to make that case to corporate partners looking for credible, outcomes-driven investments in nature.
Corporates
Connect your nature investments to water security, biodiversity commitments, and evolving reporting standards. Know what you’re actually buying, and be able to prove it.
Implementation partners
Strengthen your project design, understand how climate change will affect your sites over time, and make your results defensible to funders and auditors.
Governments & NGOs
Align restoration work with policy targets and demonstrate progress that holds up to scrutiny, across carbon, water, and biodiversity commitments.
Frequently Asked Questions
It measures the real-world effects of forests beyond tree counts, including water, biodiversity and ecosystem value.
Because stakeholders increasingly require proof of impact, not just activity.
Water balance, biodiversity, ecosystem resilience and long-term forest development.
Using satellite data, remote sensing and integrated modelling.
By providing credible, defensible evidence of impact for investors and partners.
into impact.
Measure what matters. Prove what works.
Jesse Schoenmakers
Environmental Expert
