Geelong’s trees are an important, vibrant part our city and surrounds, providing many services to the local community, contributing to Geelong’s liveability and localised neighbourhood characters.
Our trees help to:
- shade the city and its hard surfaces during hot summers,
- enhance our local biodiversity,
- reduce stormwater run-off into rivers and the bay,
- absorb air pollution (sequester and store carbon).
More than this, our trees help characterise our city into what it is today: from the heritage values of the majestic Elm trees to the beauty of the lemon scented gums planted along Brougham Street, the palms along Moorabool Street and the Hoop Pines lining our waterfront.
We are responsible for managing 112,000 street trees and over 51,491 park trees as well as the trees along rural roadways and in reserves, including those along our waterways and bike trails.
We are committed to protecting, enhancing, managing and maintaining our tree population for the long term benefit of our community. It is also committed to improving our liveability through the planting of more street and park trees for the community to enjoy. More about our urban forest strategy.
The City recognises that all public owned trees (managed by the City of Greater Geelong) are recognised as dynamic, living assets requiring ongoing maintenance and management.
Request a street tree planting
Any property owner in the City of Greater Geelong can request a tree planting (free of charge) to be planted outside their property to help keep Geelong beautiful.
Explore
the Urban Forest Dashboard
The
Urban Forest Dashboard is a way to share with the community the work we do
every day to make Greater Geelong a greener, cooler and more liveable city.
Transparent decision
making is important and we want residents, researchers, policy makers and
citizen scientists to have to access to the data we collect on the 176,545 trees in our parks, reserves and streets.