July 1, 2025
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Hotels For Trees. VIC
TREES PLANTED
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Hotels for Trees is a charity that contributes directly to a greener hotel world. A hotel world in which one new tree is planted each time a hotel guest chooses to skip the daily room cleaning. Hotels for Trees has been active in Australia since 2023. Globally, the organisation has planted more than 450,000 trees since establishment in 2021.
Fifteen Trees are very proud to be their planting partners for participating hotels in Victoria and Tasmania.
Sometimes there are really simple things everyone can do to reduce their carbon footprint. When staying at a hotel, choosing to skip the room cleaning and having a tree planted instead, is one of those things. Less cleaning means less emissions, and by planting a tree we increase the planet’s capacity to deal with climate change. We guarantee that trees donated by Australian hotels are planted in Australia, and we are very excited to now work with Fifteen Trees to ensure a true local impact for our partner hotels in Victoria and Tasmania.
Hugo van Roermund | Manager | Hotels for Trees Australia
Over the course of this year, we’re planting over 10,000 trees across Victoria on behalf of Hotels for Trees. The first lot of trees are already in the ground. Stay tuned as we share updates and stories from each new planting site!
Site 1 | Westgate Park, VIC | 1,210 trees
Westgate Biodiversity is a community-based not-for-profit organisation based at the foot of one of Melbourne’s most iconic and main transport arterials from the West to the city, Westgate Bridge.
Made up of over 40 volunteers, Westgate Biodiversity not only grow and sell locally indigenous plants, but work passionately in transforming Westgate Park into a natural, bush-like place for people to enjoy, and habitat for amazing biodiversity.
It was here that Hugo van Roermund (Australian Manager for Hotels for Trees) and employees from Quest and The Brady Group planted out some of the smaller species such as grasses and ground covers in a previously burnt out grasslands in the middle of the park. Other trees that have been planted in the park thanks to Hotels for Trees include native species of trees and shrubs such as; Acacias (Lightwood, Coastal Wattle, Black Wattle and Blackwood), Sheoakes, Saltbushes, Banksias, Correas and Eucalyptus (Red River Gum, Yellow Gum, Melbourne White Ironbark, Yellow Box, Swamp Gum, Snow Gum, Narrow-leaf Peppermint and Manna Gum).
Site 2 | Upper Goulburn, VIC | 1,500 trees
The trees were planted by the Upper Goulburn Landcare Network across 3 sites; Molesworth, Yea and Murrindindi. Taungurung country! Species included, Swamp gum, Blackwood, River Bottlebrush, Tree Violet, Prickly Tea-tree, Woolly-Tea-tree, Black Wattle, Manna Gum, Common Tussock grass, Golden Wattle, Hedge Wattle and Grey Box.
The planting at the Molesoworth site, completed a 700m wildlife corridor along the Goulburn River that also included a lagoon bank and some higher dryer country.
At Yea, the planting will help create a wildlife corridor along Boggy Creek and also help to control erosion. Thanks also to the Yellow Creek-Dairy Creek and Strath Creek Landcare Group members who helped on the day.
Meanwhile at Murrindindi, with the help of family and friends the Agostinelli family planted indigenous plants in their back paddock to revegetate unused farmland and the riparian area along the Murrindindi River.
Thanks so much to the hotel guests who sponsored our trees. Your generosity is making a difference to the natural environment, and we really appreciate you contribution.
Therese Bradshaw | Member | UGLN
Over time these plants will enhance the native environment by providing habitat for native wildlife, providing a corridor for wildlife to move in a greater area, and by competing with introduced pasture grasses for nutrients and water.
The native animals that live in this area are: wombats, wallabies, kangaroos, echidnas, koalas, possums, turtles, platypus, brown, black and tiger snakes, and frogs. The native birds that have been recorded on the property include: Magpies, Little Pied Cormorant, Pacific Black Duck, Willie Wagtail, Welcome Swallow, Fairy-wren, Galah, Silvereye, Yellow Thornbill, Striated Pardalote, Striated Thornbill, Eastern Spinebill, South Boobook, Pied Currawong, Grey Fantail, White faced Heron, Grey Teal, Eurasian Coot, Great Cormorant, Laughing Kookaburra, Whistling Kite, Grey Strike-thrush, Crimson Rosella, Great Pied Cormorant, Australian Grebe, Hoary-headed Grebe, Australasian Grebe, Grey Fantail, Yellow Thornbill, Australian Wood Duck, Little Wattlebird, White-browed Scrubwren, Red Browed Finch, Grey Butcherbird, Dusky Moorhen and Noisy Friarbird. An absolute paradise.
Site 3 | Grassflat, VIC | 1,500 trees
Grass Flat is a district in the Wimmera of Western Victoria and is home to some truly beautiful and unique Australian wildlife such as wallabies, kangaroos, echidnas, birds of prey, honeyeaters, Blue-wrens, reptiles, native bees and butterflies including the endangered Golden-rayed Blue Butterfly.
It is here that we planted 5,000 native trees, shrubs and grasses of which 1,500 were generously donated by Hotels for Trees and their participating hotels. This indigenous revegetation is being undertaken at this site by Natimuk Urban Landcare Group to restore habitat for local wildlife and pollinators.
Before actual planting could take place, land at the site had to be prepared Rabbits were controlled, fences removed, replaced and/or repaired and introduced species of flora, i.e weeds (Tall Wheat Grass, Horehound) were removed with slashing, ripping lines and spraying. A massive task!
If, on your travels, you visit a hotel who have not (yet) joined Hotels for Trees, please tell them what a great initiative it is and ask them to contact Hugo at [email protected] to find out more.
Here’s a great little video (3min) about the Hotels for Trees initiative.
Writer: Colleen B. Filippa
With a background in Environmental Science, Colleen is the Founding Director of Fifteen Trees. In 2009, after 20 years in primary, secondary and tertiary education institutions, Colleen left the classroom to start the company. Fifteen Trees is a social enterprise assisting individuals and companies to reduce their carbon footprint by supporting community groups such as Landcare, schools and environmental networks.
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