This place called narrm has been managed by its Traditional Owners for millennia – all Melburnians share a responsibility to care for our environment. In the context of climate and biodiversity crises, we must make every effort to be a green, resilient, sustainable and nature-based city.
We’re doing this by:
investing $44.3 million in 2025–26 in open space, streetscapes and greening fast-tracking delivery of open space and greening projects enabling community-led greening enhancing the Urban Forest Fund to target areas where greening is needed most appointing knowledgeable local leaders as ambassadors, who’ll advise on greening projects and champion these effortsestablishing a floral emblem for Melbourne, voted by Melburnians.
Our green open spaces are vital for both our city’s liveability and our community’s wellbeing. We’re encouraging Melburnians to get more involved with caring for our green spaces as a way to get closer with nature and one another.
As part of our mission to establish Melbourne’s identity as the garden city, we’ve appointed two ambassadors – Paul Bangay OAM, our Garden City Ambassador, and Margaret Parisi, our First Nations Garden City Ambassador. They’ll play a pivotal role in promoting visionary projects, advocating for our green spaces big and small and using their expertise and cultural knowledge to inspire a greener future for Melbourne.
In Melbourne, nature is never far. Let’s grow our garden city together.
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