Million Trees

​What is Million Trees?

Million Trees is a programme for greening Auckland that will plant a million trees and shrubs, mostly native, across the region over three years.

The programme will green our city, offset carbon emissions, protect our water quality by planting along rivers and coastlines and improve our living environment.

Help us plant a Million Trees

To help celebrate Matariki 2018, we'd like to invite you along to help Mayor Phil Goff plant 60,000 trees during June and July.

Every volunteer will get a free tree sapling from Trees that Count, and there'll be a sausage sizzle after each planting event.

Find out more and register

Matariki Tree Planting video

Our partners

Planting a million trees, shrubs and grasses will take an enormous effort from many people and organisations, and it would not be possible without the support of our key partners:

• Department of Corrections is providing nursery space and labour through their prisons and community offender services in the Auckland region. This partnership provides us with capacity to grow the necessary stock, and labour to assist with site preparation, planting and maintenance.
• Trees That Count will count all the trees that the council intends to plant. It will collaborate with us to promote the need to plant native trees across the Auckland region and leverage technology and innovation to support the ongoing collection of monitoring data.

Ongoing work

There is already a lot of great planting work happening in Auckland via our local boards, iwi, schools, service and social sector groups, private entities, farmers, the council group, New Zealand Transport Association and developers.

Million Trees will work alongside all of these groups to facilitate the planting of a million trees in three years and accelerate projects where possible. 

Sweet Treat

Million Trees and Department of Corrections are gifting 110 fruit trees to local schools.

Auckland gets green

The first year of the programme saw approximately 174,000 trees, shrubs and grasses planted across Auckland.

We will build on this progress in 2018, with more than 500,000 trees and shrubs set to go in the ground this planting season.

Eco-sourcing

All plants in Million Trees are sourced locally.

This is because local species adapt better to local conditions and have a higher likelihood of survival.

Plantings for 2018