2 Billion Trees project highlights

The City of Edmonton

Location: Edmonton, Alberta

Project Timeline: 2022 to 2031

Objective: To plant about 1.5 million trees to increase the urban forest canopy in underutilized parkland, along roadways, in environmentally sensitive areas and in stormwater management areas. This project will also plant shrubs as part of its planting program in order to achieve higher environmental and human well-being co-benefits.

Canadian Trees for Life

Location: Southern Ontario

Project Timeline: 2023 to 2028

Objective: To plant 120,000 trees in Southern Ontario by working in collaboration with planting partners that are not able to meet 2 Billion Trees (2BT) program planting minimums or are not intending to apply directly to the 2BT program themselves.

The City of Winnipeg

Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba

Project Timeline: 2022 to 2027

Objective: To plant around 71,000 trees to revitalize Winnipeg's urban forest through a combination of municipal and community-driven planting projects. This project will enhance urban canopy in places that Winnipeg families value most - in parks, green spaces, naturalized forests, and riverbank environments.

Federation of Canadian Municipalities’ Growing Canada’s Community Canopies initiative

Location: Across Canada

Project Timeline: 2024 to 2031

Objective: To support tree planting and capacity building for communities of all sizes. Through this project, at least 1.2 million new trees will be planted in approximately 300 communities by 2031, generating more than 2,000 jobs every year in municipalities across Canada.

Canadian Forces Housing Agency

Location: Across Canada

Project Timeline: 2022 to 2031

Objective: To plant 14,450 trees to increase the urban forest in private military quarters. This project will seek to achieve human well-being co-benefits for occupants within the various housing sites by providing shade, improving aesthetics, reducing soil erosion, fostering a sense of connection with nature and providing a windbreak for the housing units within each site.

Nekoté Limited Partnership

Location: Northern Manitoba

Project Timeline: 2022 to 2031

Objective: To plant 20.8 million trees to restore boreal forest lands affected by pest infestation and wildfire, improving forest health and biodiversity.

Central Chilcotin Rehabilitation Ltd

Location: British Columbia

Project Timeline: 2022 to 2031

Objective: To reforest and rehabilitate forest stands destroyed in the 2017 Hanceville Fire and the Plateau Fire and that are also impacted by mountain pine beetle, with a focus on important wildlife wintering areas. The project will support the planting of 9.3 million trees within the traditional territory of Alexis Creek First Nation and Tl'etinqox government.

Yukon First Nations Wildfire Limited Partnership

Location: Yukon

Project Timeline: 2022 to 2026

Objective: To plant over 20,000 trees through collaboration with partners. The project will involve collecting local seeds for future planting and increasing capacity for larger scale planting projects.

Southwest Nova Biosphere Reserve Association

Location: Nova Scotia

Project Timeline: 2023 to 2026

Objective: To plant over 250,000 native trees to restore the Wabanaki (Acadian) forest. This will improve climate resiliency by increasing carbon sequestration, biodiversity, and ecosystem services, as well as enable regional knowledge mobilization.

Community Forests International

Location: New Brunswick and Nova Scotia

Project Timeline: 2022 to 2026

Objective: To plant 951,000 trees as well as secure, reforest, and restore degraded forestland. All reforestation will be stewarded for long-term climate resilience and carbon storage.

Forests Ontario

Location: Across Ontario

Project Timeline: 2024 to 2031

Objective: To plant 31 million trees across Ontario to contribute to habitat restoration (including species at risk habitat), and provide the many social, cultural, environmental, and economic benefits that trees and forests offer.

Cariboo Carbon Solutions

Location: British Columbia

Project Timeline: 2023 to 2031

Objective: To plant approximately 46 million trees to restore areas within British Columbia that have been impacted by major natural disasters. It aims to restore lands impacted by the 2021 Lytton wildfire.

Government of British Columbia

Location: Across British Columbia

Project Timeline: 2022 to 2025

Objective: To reforest and plant approximately 65.5 million trees in wildfire-impacted areas. Ecological benefits include converting severely burnt areas into future healthy forests, restoring wildlife habitat and reducing the hydrological impacts of disturbed areas.

Government of New Brunswick

Location: Across New Brunswick

Project Timeline: 2023 to 2031

Objective: To leverage New Brunswick’s existing forest management framework to plant approximately 52.9 million climate-resilient trees on public lands, which will help regulate extreme weather events, and sequester emissions.

Government of Ontario

Location: Across Ontario

Project Timeline: 2023 to 2026

Objective: To establish a 3-year tree planting program to fund incremental tree planting activities to regenerate Ontario Crown land.