The draft Urban Ecology and Biodiversity Strategy was reshaped at the end of 2016 into the Nature in the City Strategy. The new title was a clearer way to engage our public in urban ecosystems and the final Nature in the City Strategy had content developed and finessed from what was in the draft Urban Ecology and Biodiversity Strategy which involved extensive community consultation and development over a period of many years.

In April 2017, the Future Melbourne Committee endorsed the City of Melbourne’s Nature in the City Strategy. This is the City of Melbourne’s first strategy to create and maintain healthy ecosystems and thriving biodiversity within the city.

Over the next ten years, the Nature in the City Strategy will help to guide the City of Melbourne to support diverse, resilient, and healthy ecosystems that improve the environment and wellbeing of our community.