# One Billion Trees Programme (Te Uru Rākau)

> Grant from Ministry for Primary Industries / Te Uru Rākau - New Zealand Forest Service (Federal) for New Zealand.

Official page: https://www.mpi.govt.nz/forestry/funding-tree-planting-research/one-billion-trees-programme/
Source: https://treerm.org/residents/programs/nz-one-billion-trees-programme · Updated 2026-11-08 · Status: Closed

**What you get:** Formerly: direct landowner grants and partnership funding to plant a billion trees across New Zealand by 2028

The One Billion Trees Programme was the New Zealand Government's 2018-2028 tree-planting drive run by Te Uru Rākau within MPI, with a fund offering direct grants to landowners and partnership grants. The fund is no longer taking new applications. MPI's current forestry funding guidance (Canopy) now points landowners to the Hill Country Erosion Programme (via regional councils), Ngā Whenua Rāhui (Māori land, via DOC), Māori agribusiness funding, council land-management teams and Trees That Count.

## Who qualifies

Not applicable to new applicants; the fund is closed.

## How to apply

No new applications. For current help with planting costs see MPI's Canopy page 'Get help with costs' and your regional council's land management team.

**For:** Landowners, Farmers, Community groups

> Note: The MPI programme page could not be loaded during this research pass (content renders client-side), so the closure wording and date were not re-read there. MPI's Canopy funding page, which was read, lists current funding options and does not include the One Billion Trees Fund. Re-verify on the MPI page.