Sappi HQ’s Employee-led Tree-Planting Initiative reaches 16,000 trees

In conjunction with Natuur en Bos, Sappi HQ’s Employee-led Tree-Planting Initiative resulted in a further 4,000 saplings planted in the Forêt de Soignes in Belgium on 26th February 2016. This brings the total number of trees replanted by the group to over 16,000 since the initiative started 6 years ago.

Jens Kriete is the Environmental Manager at Sappi Europe, “Our mantra at Sappi is that to make sustainability a success, we have to involve our people. This is a great example of where Sappi employees have taken the lead by regularly getting together to plant trees in a local forest.” Sappi’s tree-planting initiative also has a strong community dimension, engaging in and with our local environment.

Sappi’s employee-led tree planting initiative started in Spring 2010 in association with ANB (Agentschap voor Natuur en Bos), the equivalent of the Department of Forestry. This organisation is responsible for the planting of approximately 30,000 trees in the Forêt de Soignes every year as part of the National Forest Management Plan (Belgium).
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