UPM, School Children Plant Thousands of Trees
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UPM, Finland, organizes a global Plant a Tree Day each year in spring and especially on May 22, the UN International Day for Biodiversity. This year school children and other stakeholders in Finland, the UK, Russia, China, the U.S., and Uruguay participated in Plant a Tree events.
In Finland the school children and UPM forest professionals plant trees together in Pyhäjärvi, Nokia, and Joroinen. UPM participates also as a partner in the ENO tree planting day in Espoo, one of the global events organized by ENO Environment Online. The seedlings for these events come from UPM's nursery in Joroinen, which produces high quality seedlings of native origin to be used to regenerate UPM forest service customers' and UPM company forests.
"A tree seedling and a school child are creators of the future," says Päivi Salpakivi-Salomaa, VP, UPM Environment. "Planting a tree is an investment and good for the climate. A growing tree sequestrates atmospheric carbon throughout its lifetime. The new forest improves the quality of surface and ground waters. It creates the preconditions for berry and mushroom production and makes a habitat for hundreds of other species."
Every year UPM plants more than 50 million tree seedlings.
ENO Environment Online is a global virtual school and network for sustainable development. More than 10,000 schools from 150 countries have taken part since 2000. One of ENO's targets is that school children around the world will plant 100 million trees by the end 2017.
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