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- Nationwide – approved One Billion Trees applications
- North Island – approved One Billion Trees applications
- South Island – approved One Billion Trees applications
Nationwide – approved One Billion Trees applications
Direct grants provide funding to landowners, iwi, and community groups for creating new forests. The forests are established through direct planting or returning the land to native forest cover (also called 'natural reversion'). Each planting has a minimum of 750 trees and shrubs per hectare, planted as live stems or regenerated through land management.
Planting began in May 2019 and will continue until 2028 when all projects will be complete. As of 31 January 2026, the total value of direct grants funded is $53,289,658 across 492 approved applications.
More data about direct grants is available on page 15 of the report below:
One Billion Trees Fund annual monitoring and evaluation report 2023-2024 [PDF, 732 KB]
Note: Tree numbers in the tables below are estimates based on the minimum number of stems per hectare for each planting.
North Island – approved One Billion Trees applications
| Region | Number of exotic plantings and eligible hectares | Number of native plantings and eligible hectares | Total number of plantings and eligible hectares |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auckland $2,056,869 |
1 plantings 6 hectares 8,760 trees |
28 plantings 252 hectares 946,716 trees |
29 plantings 258 hectares 95,5476 trees |
| Bay of Plenty $1,180,576 |
3 plantings 40 hectares 33,781 trees |
29 plantings 273 hectares 584,427 trees |
32 plantings 313 hectares 618,208 trees |
| Gisborne $2,522,853 |
3 plantings 23 hectares 25,122 trees |
16 plantings 805 hectares 1,320,669 trees |
19 plantings 829 hectares 1,345,791 trees |
| Hawke's Bay $6,782,722 |
11 plantings 417 hectares 436,526 trees |
57 plantings 2,586 hectares 3,043,601 trees |
68 plantings 3,003 hectares 3,480,127 trees |
| Manawatu-Whanganui $5,833,029 |
6 plantings 162 hectares 132,154 trees |
37 plantings 2,451 hectares 3,171,164 trees |
43 plantings 2,614 hectares 3,303,318 trees |
| Northland $3,838,765 |
7 plantings 277 hectares 331,725 trees |
57 plantings 763 hectares 1,739,977 trees |
64 plantings 1,039 hectares 2,071,702 trees |
| Taranaki $2,056,476 |
4 plantings 177 hectares 178,500 trees |
13 plantings 654 hectares 832,951 trees |
17 plantings 831 hectares 1,011,451 trees |
| Waikato $3,255,864 |
5 plantings 48 hectares 43,173 trees |
33 plantings 304 hectares 788,367 trees |
38 plantings 352 hectares 831,540 trees |
| Wellington $3,447,372 |
6 plantings 345 hectares 362,547 trees |
20 plantings 514 hectares 747,893 trees |
26 plantings 860 hectares 1,110,440 trees |
| Total $30,974,525 |
46 plantings 1496 hectares 1,552,288 trees |
290 plantings 8,603 hectares 13,175,765 trees |
336 plantings 10,099 hectares 14,728,053 trees |
South Island – approved One Billion Trees applications
| Region | Number of exotic plantings and eligible hectares | Number of native plantings and eligible hectares | Total number of plantings and eligible hectares |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canterbury $10,242,588 |
39 plantings 2,753 hectares 2,693,509 trees |
50 plantings 2,190 hectares 1,595,233 trees |
89 plantings 4,944 hectares 4,288,742 trees |
| Chatham Islands $1,053,555 |
0 plantings | 3 plantings 199 hectares 227,552 trees |
3 plantings 199 hectares 0 trees |
| Marlborough $2,312,655 |
7 plantings 445 hectares 439,995 trees |
8 plantings 637 hectares 368,082 trees |
15 plantings 1,083 hectares 808,077 trees |
| Nelson $349,565 |
0 plantings | 2 plantings 78 hectares 125,068 trees |
2 plantings 78 hectares 0 trees |
| Otago $4,160,205 |
20 plantings 569 hectares 653,889 trees |
21 plantings 504 hectares 1,066,281 trees |
41 plantings 1,072 hectares 1,720,170 trees |
| Southland $1,424,535 |
11 plantings 297 hectares 353,603 trees |
14 plantings 259 hectares 287,965 trees |
25 plantings 557 hectares 641,568 trees |
| Tasman $2,723,900 |
6 plantings 185 hectares 238,676 trees |
15 plantings 197 hectares 249,914 trees |
21 plantings 381 hectares 488,590 trees |
| West Coast $48,130 |
1 plantings 8 hectares 6,315 trees |
2 plantings 7 hectares 19,440 trees |
3 plantings 15 hectares 25,755 trees |
| Total $22,315,133 |
84 plantings 4,258 hectares 4,385,987 trees |
115 plantings 4,070 hectares 3,939,535 trees |
199 plantings 8,328 hectares 7,972,902 trees |
