The donation will also fund further work on our 1 Million Trees project at Eurardy Reserve where we are planting 1 million native trees and shrubs over the next 10 years. Last year’s Volkswagen funds and the most recent funds will allow us to revegetate 200 hectares of the yellow soils component of this project, as well as enable us to collect seeds, plant seedlings and remove weeds to prepare the land for planting.
A large portion of last year’s funding was directed to our Scottsdale Reserve on Ngunnawal country in southern NSW, which was significantly impacted by the Orroral (Namadgi) and Clear Range fires in February 2020. It is enabling us to plant native trees and shrubs over 400 hectares at Scottsdale to replace the large sections of revegetated areas destroyed by the fire.