Abstract: A bioregion is identified by its distinct flora, fauna, geographical features of a place along with sustainable human cultures, dynamic relationship and evolution in  relation with the land. “A bioregion is a part of the earth’s surface whose rough boundaries are determined by natural rather than dictates, distinguishable from other areas by attributes of flora, fauna, climate, soils and landforms, and the human settlements human and cultures those attributes have given rise to”(Sale 78). Noonuccal was born on November 3, 1920, in Stradbroke Island, Queensland. Most Australians know her as Kath Walker, the name she was given by white people, but in 1988 she decided to change her name to identify more closely with her Aboriginal heritage. ‘Municipal Gum’ is a poem about a tree which is in a bad condition struggling to survive, surrounded by the hard bitumen. Gieve Patel, an Indian writer from the Green Movement describes the pain of a tree which is uprooted from its bioregion. The researcher attempts a bioregional reading of the poems which exposes the present state of the tree and the world. The loss of bioregions in Australia and India and the present condition of the Indigenous people is discussed with the need to reinhabit and protect the natural world.

Keywords: Bioregion, Australia, Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Tree, Aborigines.

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