The Ludlow Tuart Forest Settlement received a $1 million funding commitment from the WA Liberal Party if they are elected in the upcoming state election.
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The Ludlow Tuart Forest Restoration Group have been working for the past two years to regenerate tuart trees and restore the forest, which is the last remaining tuart forest in the world.
The group have planted 43,000 trees in the forest since 2018 with the help of around 1,000 volunteers.
The Ludlow Tuart Forest Restoration Group member Evelyn Taylor said it was a huge achievement.
"We need to know that we have used up to 97 per cent of forest in this country," she said.
"That is a huge figure and totally unbelievable, you drive around and see all the areas where there used to be forest, then you see the state of this forest.
"If you understand gardening and you understand what a good forest looks like, if you drove through here you would be saddened.
"We have to make a difference and take out all the arum lilies that exist in this forest and get back to natural flora and fauna in this area.
"The little things that live here do not eat arum lilies."
Ms Taylor said the project to restore the forest had to be community driven for it to be successful and for the forest to survive into the future.
"It is under such threat, it is to close to the coast, Busselton and Bunbury, to protect it needs community support," she said.
Group member and former forester Des Donnelly said the Tuart Forest was lovely.
"It is only 3,000 hectares reduced from 100,000 hectares which has been taken over for farming and places for people to live.
"Urbanisation has chewed up most of it from Wanneroo, we cannot afford to have the forest deteriorate any further, the forest is under threat from a whole series of issues that are manageable but it will take money and time.
"We need to put people in who can do management and make sure that the forest continues to grow which is what we are doing with our planting.
"We are replanting the areas which have been damaged and turning them back into a new forest."
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Vasse MLA Libby Mettam said the funding was vital in helping not only restore the historic settlement but to also help develop its potential as an educational, tourism and research site.
"The Liberals WA understand the forest has an important history and is recognised as an internationally-important treasure that needs to be looked after which is why we are making this significant commitment to preserving this great asset," she said.
The LFTRG recently completed negotiations for a 20-year lease over the historic Ludlow Forest Settlement and surrounds and are continuing restorations to many of the original buildings at the site.
Due to WA's COVID-19 situation the WA Labor Party have suspended making any election commitments this week.
