The Tree Projects

The Tree Projects Canopy Ecologist Dr Jen Sanger and adventure Photographer Steven Pearce create "big tree" outreach co
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The Tree Projects use innovative film and photography methods to raise awareness about the world's significant trees and the forests in which they reside. We bring you beautiful imagery of the trees from a unique perspective, which allows people to experience a rainforest from above the forest floor. The signature element of our project is a 'tree portrait' of a significant tree. When large forest

trees are viewed from the ground, it is often impossible to get a true sense of the size of the tree, as the top of the tree is often obscured from view. We install a specialised camera rigging system which runs the entire vertical length of the tree and takes a photo every metre. These photos are then stitched together to create a portrait of the tree from a level viewpoint without visual distortion. The projects also contain many other innovative content such as virtual reality tours of the canopy, aerial photography and timelaspe and hyperlapse video. Our content is designed for educational purposes and is used for museum exhibition and for magazine articles. We hope to educate people about the importance of forests but allowing them to view trees from a new perspective. Projects:

2015: The New Zealand Tree Project
2016: The Tasmanian Tree Project

Three cheers to  for refusing to finance a native forest logging contractor here in Tasmania. This image shows the reali...
14/01/2025

Three cheers to for refusing to finance a native forest logging contractor here in Tasmania. This image shows the reality of so called 'sustainable logging practices' in this state.
Native forest logging is the highest emitting sector in Tasmania. It's great to see that businesses like Bendigo Bank are taking climate action seriously. Here's to seeing more companies putting people (and the environment) before profit.

If you haven't already, make sure you check out the awesome documentary call "The Forest", which is now showing on ABC i...
17/12/2024

If you haven't already, make sure you check out the awesome documentary call "The Forest", which is now showing on ABC iview. It talks about how important forest protection is for the climate. Stoked that some of our research was mentioned in this excellent documentary. Link in the comments :)

LAUNCHING BIG TREE ILLUSTRATIONS 80cm tall prints perfect for the clean minimalists out there. Created by  celebrated bo...
12/12/2024

LAUNCHING BIG TREE ILLUSTRATIONS 80cm tall prints perfect for the clean minimalists out there. Created by celebrated botanical artist for the Royal Horticultural Society and Royal Botanic Gardens Kew exclusively for The Tree Projects and you the big tree lover.

Stickers also available

Head to our shop page on The Tree Projects website (link in bio). Order before Monday to get a free upgrade to express post, we’ll take care of this on the back end just add standard post as usual.

TASMANIA IS THE BIG TREE STATE
For free guides to Tasmania’s giant trees
| website Link in bio
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GIANT TREE POSTERS & PRINTS
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WONDER & WRAPPING TREES w   leaders  &  screening tonight. Tasmania is home to the largest and tallest trees in the Sout...
11/12/2024

WONDER & WRAPPING TREES w leaders & screening tonight. Tasmania is home to the largest and tallest trees in the Southern Hemisphere. Hobart Darwin Leader, Jordan Winters went climbing high above the canopy with us to discover more about what makes these natural wonders.

Don’t miss a special screening of her film at St Michael’s Collegiate School, Performing Arts Centre (Senior School Campus, Davey Street, Hobart) tonight, 12th December,
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM.

+ This FREE DARWIN200 event will also feature:
Captivating stories from our Project Leaders’ global voyage retracing Charles Darwin’s historic HMS Beagle route.
Insights into our Darwin Leaders’ Hobart research projects.
A screening of their first episodes!

Reserve your spot now via the link in our bio.

TASMANIA IS THE BIG TREE STATE
For free guides to Tasmania’s giant trees
| website Link in bio
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We thank our sponsors

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1% FOR THE PLANET
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GIANT TREE POSTERS & PRINTS
$60 for 3 x 100cm tall posters use code “insta10” for 10% discount. Link in bio


CAMERAS DEPLOYED  is monitoring the behaviour of primates in Ghana. He was one of our first round of Canopy Access stude...
09/12/2024

CAMERAS DEPLOYED is monitoring the behaviour of primates in Ghana. He was one of our first round of Canopy Access students earlier this year when we trained 8 young scientists in Ghana. Daniel’s project is just one of the new and exciting projects exploring the canopy in West Africa.

All climbing equipment was donated by and us at The Tree Projects.

Expertly trained by and

TASMANIA IS THE BIG TREE STATE
For free guides to Tasmania’s giant trees
| website Link in bio
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We thank our sponsors

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1% FOR THE PLANET
Tax deductible donations
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GIANT TREE POSTERS & PRINTS
$60 for 3 x 100cm tall posters use code “insta10” for 10% discount. Link in bio


GET EM WHILE THEY ARE HOT FOLKS! Shop link in bio 👀TASMANIA IS THE BIG TREE STATEFor free guides to Tasmania’s giant tre...
08/12/2024

GET EM WHILE THEY ARE HOT FOLKS! Shop link in bio 👀

TASMANIA IS THE BIG TREE STATE
For free guides to Tasmania’s giant trees
| website Link in bio
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We thank our sponsors

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1% FOR THE PLANET
Tax deductible donations
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GIANT TREE POSTERS & PRINTS
$60 for 3 x 100cm tall posters use code “insta10” for 10% discount. Link in bio
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15 MONTHS BUT SO EPIC! Our latest tree portrait was a battle w over 25 attempts at capturing the weather. The trees, the...
05/12/2024

15 MONTHS BUT SO EPIC! Our latest tree portrait was a battle w over 25 attempts at capturing the weather. The trees, they are ever present however the perfect weather can be fleeting. This tree just happened to be located high enough on the hill side to sit above the fog layer but low enough on the slope to be below the cloud layer. Capturing a bit of drama in the weather just became a bit of a frustrating battle. We could have settled for less and called it done.

But it takes a bit of effort and persistence to really do justice to such a magnificent tree and create something special. We have big plans over the next 6-12 months and we’ll be keeping this ace up our sleeve for sure.

TASMANIA IS THE BIG TREE STATE
For free guides to Tasmania’s giant trees
| website Link in bio
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We thank our sponsors

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1% FOR THE PLANET
Tax deductible donations
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GIANT TREE POSTERS & PRINTS
$60 for 3 x 100cm tall posters use code “insta10” for 10% discount. Link in bio
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Huon Valley Grove of Giants & Lathamus Keep is the perfect place to be acquainted w Tassie’s giants. 5 trees on the “Top...
03/12/2024

Huon Valley Grove of Giants & Lathamus Keep is the perfect place to be acquainted w Tassie’s giants. 5 trees on the “Top Walk” are bigger than any eucalypt on mainland Australia. The first giant tree “Monastery” is just 100m into the walk with the second, third and fourth only another 200m.

In the two weeks since we’ve been home from our Vancouver Island epic we have been to the Huon Valley Grove of Giants 3 times. Before the end of the weekend we will have visited it 3 more times, it’s keeping us busy that’s for sure.

If you do visit the Huon Valley Grove of Giants let us know we love to hear from you.

TASMANIA IS THE BIG TREE STATE
For free guides to Tasmania’s giant trees
| website Link in bio
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We thank our sponsors

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1% FOR THE PLANET
Tax deductible donations
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GIANT TREE POSTERS & PRINTS
$60 for 3 x 100cm tall posters use code “insta10” for 10% discount. Link in bio
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BIG TREE CONSERVATION installing CaviCams for a 3rd time w Prof Brodribb  &  - a primo summer day was spent in the tree ...
02/12/2024

BIG TREE CONSERVATION installing CaviCams for a 3rd time w Prof Brodribb & - a primo summer day was spent in the tree tops gathering data and installing new cavitation cameras 70m up in a Eucalyptus regnans. Cavitation cameras are nifty devices used to measure the drought stress in a tree. This data is all going into Dan’s Honours research.

There’s a number of great ideas that are floating around for instrumentation to install into the tree tops to answer some complex questions.

Love doing the work and love the generation of data.

TASMANIA IS THE BIG TREE STATE
For free guides to Tasmania’s giant trees
| website Link in bio
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We thank our sponsors

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1% FOR THE PLANET
Tax deductible donations
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GIANT TREE POSTERS & PRINTS
$60 for 3 x 100cm tall posters use code “insta10” for 10% discount. Link in bio


GRANT APPLICATION SUCCESSFUL it’s not every day you get such great news especially in a tree! That’s a bit of a two for ...
02/12/2024

GRANT APPLICATION SUCCESSFUL it’s not every day you get such great news especially in a tree! That’s a bit of a two for one type day. We’re so stoked that the team will be heading back to Ghana for more canopy science access training with two of the best and

This 2025 round of training will double the time spent in country and double the amount of young Ghanaian scientists that will have the world of canopy science at their fingertips.

Can’t wait to be back climbing with such enthusiastic people in spectacular forests and eating the delicious food.

TASMANIA IS THE BIG TREE STATE
For free guides to Tasmania’s giant trees
| website Link in bio
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We thank our sponsors

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1% FOR THE PLANET
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GIANT TREE POSTERS & PRINTS
$60 for 3 x 100cm tall posters use code “insta10” for 10% discount. Link in bio to The Tree Projects website.
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IT WILL BE 22 STORIES TALL! You never know where projects will lead, some end up 80m tall on display in a city of millio...
15/11/2024

IT WILL BE 22 STORIES TALL! You never know where projects will lead, some end up 80m tall on display in a city of millions. This is the tree portrait of Tao Tree our second Taiwan project in 2022. Over the years long construction of this building as the levels grow so does the tree and by mid 2025 the full tree will be revealed.

These tree portrait projects of ours seem a bit random, especially to us, because they’re mostly passion projects. Our first project in New Zealand was 2015 and we’re currently in Canada having just recorded two trees here. Plus we have an unreleased but completed tree portrait from our home Tasmania. Each one is typically months of work when adding up the planning, installation, weather watching, recording and finally editing.

That and we’ve just been invited back to Taiwan 🇹🇼 in March to photograph their new champion tree ⚡️HEAVENS SWORD⚡️. Sick fun lining up the next mega mish which still in the taper of the current mega mish. Conservation can be fun!

TASMANIA IS THE BIG TREE STATE
For free guides to Tasmania’s giant trees
| website Link in bio
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We thank our sponsors

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1% FOR THE PLANET
Tax deductible donations
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GIANT TREE POSTERS & PRINTS
$60 for 3 x 100cm tall posters use code “insta10” for 10% discount. Link in bio

ALL AUSSIE CLIMBERS CHECK THIS OUT! You beauty, good work  Carved Hollow Creation.A conservation arborists field guide.N...
15/11/2024

ALL AUSSIE CLIMBERS CHECK THIS OUT! You beauty, good work Carved Hollow Creation.
A conservation arborists field guide.

Now available to order via the website.
https://habitec.org.au/education/

EVE COLLOM

Tasmania has so much to learn from Vancouver Island. Walks can alway be improved, impacts always reduced, infrastructure...
13/11/2024

Tasmania has so much to learn from Vancouver Island. Walks can alway be improved, impacts always reduced, infrastructure more tailored to the location. But holy s**t big tree visitation has to start somewhere and it doesn’t need to be a 1.5 million dollar project.

In a place so similar to Tasmania climatically, similarly grand forests and sad to say similarly divided by logging and conservation interests they still have managed to promote big tree tourism. Our year long application process to control erosion and improve environmental outcomes by modestly change track routes was recently rejected. Make no mistake there was no “upgrades” to track type, no installing car parks, no boardwalks, no platforms and no signage. Just the very lowest form of track realignment to reduce impacts…. and it was rejected.

I guess it’s hard not to be perplexed by such a decision that went all the way to the top of the administration ladder. It’s also hard to know where to go after such a decision because it was literally the lowest form of track classification and lowest form of improvement just to get tracks away from the very base of trees.

But here on Vancouver Island it seems to not be so much of an issue and people can just get pumped on some big trees.

TASMANIA IS THE BIG TREE STATE
For free guides to Tasmania’s giant trees
| website Link in bio
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We thank our sponsors

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1% FOR THE PLANET
Tax deductible donations
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GIANT TREE POSTERS & PRINTS
$60 for 3 x 100cm tall posters use code “insta10” for 10% discount. Link in bio

The indomitable Dr Jen Sanger spent weeks practicing her climbing before heading to Vancouver Island. She had never been...
12/11/2024

The indomitable Dr Jen Sanger spent weeks practicing her climbing before heading to Vancouver Island. She had never been at the top of a tree helping to rig a system before. Tree top drone launching and recovery, fishing lines dropped into trees 30m away, 2mm dyneema, 4mm spectra, beams with pulleys and casually eyeballing camera platforms dropping out of the sky clearing all the foliage and tangles to hit a 2x2m target area we can’t see. All while have very limited time to complete the task and being filmed and directed to “face this way” “lean back a little”.

There was a shed load going on, all of it critical to get completed that day because the next was going to be a washout.

Mad respect to Dr Sanger who pushed her limits of climbing and comfort and then once at the top kept her cool and came through as well as any climber I’ve been up with.

We’ve been on Vancouver Island with & photographing two giant trees for a documentary project “Chasing the Last Giants” it’s like fully a proper thing hey! Thanks to for the sick mish.

TASMANIA IS THE BIG TREE STATE
For free guides to Tasmania’s giant trees
| website Link in bio
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We thank our sponsors

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1% FOR THE PLANET
Tax deductible donations
——
GIANT TREE POSTERS & PRINTS
$60 for 3 x 100cm tall posters use code “insta10” for 10% discount. Link in bio

Very lucky to have some post project time to slow down and visit some old growth. After 10 hectic crazy days of filming ...
08/11/2024

Very lucky to have some post project time to slow down and visit some old growth. After 10 hectic crazy days of filming it’s both sad and exciting to say goodbye to the crew and venture out on our own.

Here we are visiting the Eden Grove out of Port Renfrew which is yet to be fully protected.

TASMANIA IS THE BIG TREE STATE
For free guides to Tasmania’s giant trees
| website Link in bio
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We thank our sponsors

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1% FOR THE PLANET
Tax deductible donations
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GIANT TREE POSTERS & PRINTS
$60 for 3 x 100cm tall posters use code “insta10” for 10% discount. Link in bio

BIG LONELY DOUG supa compressed 1.5 day rig, climb, system install & ultra lucky duck sunrise shoot. On Vancouver Island...
04/11/2024

BIG LONELY DOUG supa compressed 1.5 day rig, climb, system install & ultra lucky duck sunrise shoot. On Vancouver Island with the dream doc team and hanging with and

Was full send every second available to get this over the line in the time allowed. The camera setup spanned a void of 160m between the tree and the hillside. Then had to precisely lower the camera trolly down into the one and only gap in the regrowth where operating the camera system was possible.

Also very lucky to have set our alarms incorrectly for the daylight savings time change so we all woke up an hour earlier than expected 🥸.

So shattered for the tree and the forest that it was. Big Lonely Doug is such a beautiful and structurally charismatic tree it’s impossible not to be impressed. But the feeling of sadness that soon follows that appreciation is equally real.

TASMANIA IS THE BIG TREE STATE
For free guides to Tasmania’s giant trees
| website Link in bio
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We thank our sponsors

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1% FOR THE PLANET
Tax deductible donations
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GIANT TREE POSTERS & PRINTS
$60 for 3 x 100cm tall posters use code “insta10” for 10% discount. Link in bio

Big lonely dog here we come.
02/11/2024

Big lonely dog here we come.

MOSTEST EXCELLENT MISH 2.5 days to climb, rigged & shoot the Castle Giant w  & Casing Giants doc crew. Our last tree por...
01/11/2024

MOSTEST EXCELLENT MISH 2.5 days to climb, rigged & shoot the Castle Giant w & Casing Giants doc crew.

Our last tree portrait in Tassie took 8 months, the time budget for this one was 2.5 days. But we pulled it off with an amazing crew of 12 people all taking charge of aspects of such a logistical and time por challenge.

Today is to recover because tomorrow we head to Big Lonely Doug to do it all again.

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