More than eight million native trees have been planted in 2017, and we can expect to see a lot more in 2018.

Trees That Count has planted millions of trees in an effort to help restore the environment and make a difference to climate change in New Zealand, and some extra funding is headed towards the worthy cause.

The Department of Conservation's Community Fund will give $300,000 to Trees That Count, which will allow for a total of 60,000 more native trees to be planted over the next three years.

The money will enable the organisation to extend its conservation work and rounds off a successful first year for the project," says Trees That Count project director Tanya Hart.

"This year we have seen more than 8.4m trees added to our live national tree count; 270 planting projects register their work; 2700 native trees gifted or donated and we've funded the planting of more than 100,000 native trees to 37 groups across New Zealand," Ms Hart said.

"To make a meaningful contribution to the New Zealand environment and climate change, we need to plant hundreds of millions of trees over the coming years.

"The Government's Billion Trees Programme will support this lofty goal, but government alone can't achieve this - we need to make New Zealanders understand that protecting our environment is a job for us all."