Greening Australia and the pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca will begin a project to plant 25 million trees on degraded landscapes in what will be one of the nation’s largest-ever privately funded restoration projects. The project will result in around 20,000 hectares planted and 4.25 million tonnes of carbon dioxide sequestered over the next 25 years, equivalent to taking nearly a million cars off the road for a year. The project is part of AstraZeneca’s efforts to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2025 and be carbon negative by 2030. As part of that project AstraZeneca has committed to planting 50 million trees around the world in a program called AZ Forest. Due to the Black Summer fires, the company decided to plant half those trees in Australia. …The project will create and preserve habitat and habitat corridors for endangered species affected by the bushfires…