{"slug":"trillion-trees-australia","name":"Trillion Trees Australia","tagline":"Perth's community tree planters since 1979, formerly Men of the Trees WA, with over 15 million natives in the ground","description":"Trillion Trees Australia is a Western Australian not-for-profit founded in 1979 as Men of the Trees WA, part of the movement started by Richard St Barbe Baker in 1922, and renamed in 2019. From its Hazelmere base it runs a community native plant nursery (established 1987, producing 150,000-200,000 plants a year), landscape restoration projects along the Helena and Swan rivers, in the Wheatbelt and in Chittering, free community planting days, and the SPROUT! schools program that has involved more than 120,000 students. It says it has planted over 15 million native trees and understorey plants across Western Australia; in 2024-25 it planted 42,899 trees on 22.6 hectares.","website_url":"https://trilliontrees.org.au","logo_url":null,"founded_year":1979,"org_type":"nonprofit","scope":"regional","headquarters":{"city":"Hazelmere","region":"Western Australia","country":"AU","lat":-31.9165,"lng":115.997},"volunteer_url":"https://trilliontrees.org.au/get-involved/volunteer","donation_url":"https://trilliontrees.org.au/donate","events_url":"https://trilliontrees.org.au/get-involved/events","featured":false,"trees_on_record":15000000,"primary_activity":"reforestation","activities":[{"slug":"reforestation","name":"Reforestation","primary":true},{"slug":"nursery-seedling-production","name":"Nurseries & seedlings","primary":false},{"slug":"seed-collection","name":"Seed collection","primary":false},{"slug":"education-advocacy","name":"Education & advocacy","primary":false}],"updated_at":"2026-11-08T00:02:16.194Z","url":"https://treerm.org/org/trillion-trees-australia","markdown_url":"https://treerm.org/org/trillion-trees-australia.md","api_url":"https://treerm.org/api/v1/organizations/trillion-trees-australia","data_note":"The 15 million cumulative figure counts native trees and understorey plants since 1979 and has been quoted unchanged since at least 2018. The 2024-25 annual report's infographic says 150k plants grown while its nursery text says almost 200,000 plants were produced in the same year; the infographic figure is recorded. 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