Our Beginnings
Native Plants WA recognises our beginning in Kenya in 1922 when a pledge to plant trees to revegetate degraded land was made by the Kikuyu people inspired by Richard St Barbe Baker. We acknowledge the name ‘Watu Wa Miti’, adopted as ‘Men of the Trees’, as the name given to mark that historic event.
This name was then given to the global tree planting movement that inspired the formation of Men of the Trees Western Australia in 1979. We are immensely proud of our strong community-led history, and we believe planting and caring for trees is more important today than ever before.
