Sapp, Johannesburg, South Africa, announced this past week that the company's employee-led tree-planting initiative resulted in an additional 4,000 saplings planted in the Forêt de Soignes in Belgium on February 26. This brings the total number of trees replanted by the group to more than 16,000 since the initiative started six years ago.

"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," said the Environmental Manager at Sappi Europe Jens Kriete

 

 

In the photo above, CEO Berry Wiersum leads by example.

 

Sappi’s employee-led tree planting initiative started in Spring 2010 in association with ANB (Agentschap voor Natuur en Bos), the equivalent of a national department of forestry. This organization 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).