Federal Member for Hume Angus Taylor has welcomed Federal funding for the planting of 25,000 trees in the Bungonia area.

Mr Taylor said Round 2 of the Federal Government’s 20 Million Trees Programme would include support for a major project to be run by private landholder David Bridgford.  

“The idea of this project is to build a seven hectare green wildlife corridor to link existing areas of bushland – creating a total area of 365 hectares.”

Mr Taylor said the Bungonia project would re-establish two naturally occurring wetland areas and riparian zones to increase biodiversity, providing a sanctuary for a number of threatened fauna.

“Round 2 of the 20 Million Trees Programme closed in September this year. By the end of this current round, we will have planted close to 11 million trees across Australia, with the aim being to plant 20 million trees by 2020.”

He said if groups were interested in applying for any future funding rounds or wanted to keep up to date with the latest information, they could subscribe to the 20 Million Trees mailing list by emailing 20milliontrees@environment.gov.au