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Planted at Bungarribee Park in Blacktown last Thursday, the 500,000th tree is a major milestone of the $10 million Premier’s Priority of Greening Our City initiative, which was announced in June 2019. The initiative is part of the Five Million Trees Program, which aims to plant five million trees in Greater Sydney by 2030.
Stokes says the government’s program is part of the bigger picture in Sydney’s future.
“Our vision is for a city within a park, where people can walk or cycle to world-class public green spaces framed by trees,” he says.
“We’ve brought the latest round of the $10 million Greening our City grant program forward to take advantage of the better planting conditions as a result of the La Nina weather pattern.”
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