The 2019 and 2020 Australian bushfire season in Australia saw more than 18.6 million hectares of land devastated, the effects of which are still evident.
Conservation International has partnered with Greening Australia under Mastercard’s Priceless Planet Coalition to restore damaged landscapes through the planting of 430,000 biodiverse, native and locally appropriate trees across New South Wales and Victoria. Planting sites were selected to support threatened species and habitat connectivity for wildlife, such as the Superb Parrot, and nationally-listed Regent Honeyeater and nationally endangered south-eastern Red-tailed Black Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus banksii graptogyne).
Monitoring and maintenance of the restoration sites is ongoing.