The 100 Million Trees Project (100MTP) is a not-for-profit initiative founded in 2022 by Richard and David Mulcahy and sister Tina coming on board in 2024. They do not receive or handle any money for their work – all sponsorship money goes directly to the service providers.

The purpose of the 100 Million Trees project is to plant up to 15 species of native trees together in what are called ‘mini forests’ of up to 2,500 trees. These trees are provided free of charge to people who make their land available for the initiative.  We hope that the trees can be enjoyed by the site owners and future generations.  Anyone considering taking part in the project should be sure that the mini-forest will not obstruct their neighbours view before proceeding. Along with supplying the trees, our professional planters, Forestry Services Limited, will come along and plant the trees free of charge. You may wish to have other volunteers on the day as well but that is up to you.

• All trees given to each site are paid for by a sponsor and are for the purpose of creating an area of biodiversity and for carbon sequestration. Once these trees are delivered to the site they become the ownership and sole responsibility of the site owner from then on.
• No trees should be planted under or over electric cables, on top of pipes or within 20 metres of any habitable structure. It is solely the responsibility of the site owner to ensure the site location is safe for planting trees.
• The owner of the site acknowledges that it will be their sole responsibility for the health and safety of any volunteer or member of the 100MTP that is invited on to the owner’s site. All independent contractors will be covered by their own insurance.
• The site owner will be responsible for the proper preparation of the land in advance of confirmed planting date. This work will be done at their cost. The preparation should be carried out as per the video on the 100MTP website entitled “How to prepare ground for planting”. If the planting team deem that the land is not prepared properly then they have no obligation to plant the trees either then or at a later stage.
• It is the sole responsibility of the site owner to care for and maintain the trees once they are planted.    Appropriate early (two year) simple management recommendations are available on our website.
• If there is a risk of damage to the trees by either animals or humans, it is the responsibility of the owner to protect the trees by fencing them off at their cost.
• A small sign provided by the 100MTP showing the name of the project and the sponsor of the project at that time will be positioned beside the plantation.

   

Confidentiality

The owner of the site accepts that the organisers of the 100MT project share information regarding the name, address, Eircode, Email and phone number of the site owner with the six service providers (two nurseries, Forestry Service Limited, our horticulturist, Bailey & Blake, our web developer West Cork Online and the current sponsor at the time of planting). This is required in order to guarantee a smooth-running process for delivering trees and planting a mini-forest on site.