Published on Friday, 24 April 2026 at 10:26:35 AM
The Town of Victoria Park has achieved Tree City of the World status for a sixth consecutive year, continuing its run as the longest serving Tree City in Western Australia, and further cementing its place as a leader nationally.
The recognition acknowledges the Town’s ongoing stated goals for its urban canopy and the resources dedicated to achieving them, its tree-related policy framework and tree data collection, as well as its annual programs to raise engagement and awareness.
Over the past 12 months the Town has enacted its Tree Retention policy to preserve established trees on private property, won a national award for its efforts to provide water sources for native fauna, supported engaged community members through Urban Forest grants and continued to make progress towards its urban canopy goals.
Since the adoption of its Urban Forest Strategy in 2019, the Town has made meaningful progress towards its 20% urban canopy target, planting 761,284sqm of projected green cover while battling stressors to existing trees such as drying climate and introduced pests.
In 2025, the Town planted 5916 trees – 71% of which were hardy, climate tolerant endemic species – with some of that number coming from the 9250 trees and shrubs given free to residents as part of its popular Urban Forest at Home program.
Many of these plantings came directly from seed collected at Jirdarup Bushland in Kensington, via a program focused on progressively revegetating the Town with hyper-endemic and threatened species that are equipped for our local climate and soils.
Last year, the seed program resulted in partnering nurseries rearing 7 bushland species which had not been produced in commercial quantities before.
The Town has also been focusing on cultivating drought-tolerant tree species from north and east of Perth in recognition of the changing climate, and will again be giving these species away as part of the Urban Forest at Home program, which is now open to the public.
For more information on the Town’s Urban Forest Strategy and associated programs, visit vicpark.info/UFS
More information on the Urban Forest at Home program: vicpark.info/freeplants
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