"Corporate Forest" Programme or ”Forest-as-a-Service”
This is an Machine Translation of original article in Romanian and Russian
Let's imagine, your organization has its own corporate forest! A forest that is planted with the hands of employees and raised with the contribution of the company. A forest in which you can carry out various activities, from birthdays, to team buildings ...
In each mayoralty of the Republic of Moldova, from 10% to 50% of the lands are classified as unused, degraded, marshy, unfit for agriculture ... In the best case, these lands are used as pastures. Although grazing is not the best way to capitalize and improve the land. Much more appropriate would be to plant mixed forests on these lands, which stabilize the climate and offer opportunities for integrating agro-forestry and silvo-grazing practices. More about the benefits for localities can be found in this article.
Many organizations in our country are ready to proactively participate in climate change consolidation activities. For them, we developed the Forest-as-a-Service program or the "Corporate Forest", in which we connect the town halls and interested organizations to implement mixed forest planting projects. Our organization offers a turnkey solution. We find suitable lands, we negotiate with the city halls, we solve all the legal aspects, we prepare a project with a detailed plan and calendar schedule of the plantations, we provide the quality planting material... In order to obtain the forest effect, the minimum size of the planted plot is 5 hectares.
It is the task of the company to carry out a series of team-building here and to ensure the protection of the plants for the first 5 years, so that the trees grow sufficiently. As soon as the trees have grown and the animals can not harm them, all access restrictions are removed and the forest becomes accessible to all the inhabitants of the village.
What does "mixed forest" mean? For each plot, we compile a list of 30-40 species of trees and shrubs that correspond to soil composition and location location. Among them: pioneer species, trees of levels 1, 2 and 3, several species of nuts, forest trees, fruit trees, forest trees, honey and medicinal species, trees and shrubs in the Red Book ...
From 33% to 40% of the total are milliferous species. This creates a kind of oasis for bees. A place where they can find food all year round. Thus, through this project, we solve another serious problem of our times. Another third are southern, drought-resistant species that increase the stability of the entire system in the face of heat and climate change.
What are the benefits of the “Corporate Forest” program for Organizations?
New green elements in the corporate culture of the company
A joint activity and high vibration, which coagulates the team. These are not just trivial team-building, but are events in which people see the long-term continuity of previous actions. Each planted tree has an electronic passport, indicating the species, description, exact location, date of planting, planting sponsor, name of the planting employee, photo-album of the tree during the growing period.
The corporate forest, in part, can supplement the contents of the vases in the company office with: fruit, berries, nuts, honey ... of course all organic and ecological
A common place for relaxation, walks, recharging batteries, personal events of employees ...
Here a summer house for short holidays for the employees' families or an outdoor office can be placed, where one of the teams for a working week or more can be sent in creative travel.
We can calculate exactly how much carbon dioxide the planted tree consumes and what part of the company's carbon footprint it covers (separate service)
Development of employees' environmental awareness, focus on resource conservation, broadening the horizon and developing long-term vision capacity
In fact, each company, due to the specificity of the production processes, the stage of development of the corporate culture, finds its meanings and forms of incorporation of the "Corporate Forest" project in its internal and external communication. Respectively, this article may interest a wider circle of managers: CEO, HR, CSR, PR, Marketing ...
If you are an employee - send this link to the decision makers in your company!
Against the background of alarming reports of forest fires in different parts of the planet, the involvement of Organizations in proactive afforestation actions, besides the fact that it is an important contribution to the restoration of the forest fund of our country and increases the degree of adaptation to climate change, is also capable of coagulate the team and improve interaction between people and departments, highlight informal leaders ... A win-win-win situation at all levels: people, companies,
