The action took place within the recently launched partnership with the initiative We Plant Good Deeds in Romania.
OSCAR Downstream, the largest independent fuel distribution company in Romania, continues its partnership with the initiative We Plant Good Deeds in Romania, financially and voluntarily supporting a new afforestation action, this time on 2 hectares of land in Lapoș commune, Prahova County.
On April 6, OSCAR Downstream employees, led by Nicolae Banica, the company's CEO, and the management team from Bucharest, joined the We Plant Good Deeds in Romania team to plant an unproductive plot of land.
The volunteers started a plantation with 10,000 thousand acacia saplings, their evolution being closely followed by forestry engineers from We Plant Good Deeds in Romania. In the next 3-5 years, care and completion works will be carried out until the moment of reaching the massive stage.
"It is hard to describe the personal and team satisfaction you have at the end of such an action," said Nicolae Banica, CEO of OSCAR Downstream. "It was a unique experience, maybe physically exhausting for some of us. In the end, however, we all forgot about fatigue, enjoying the result of our work. We trust that our partners from We Plant Good Deeds in Romania will watch over the healthy development of these saplings and that we will walk, in a few years, through this young forest, planted with the help of the OSCAR Downstream team. We will continue to carry out such actions in other areas of the country, in line with our commitment to contribute to sustainability efforts in the communities where we are present."
"We approached this land to stop surface landslide and erosion processes through acacia afforestation. Acacia is a fast-growing species, which fixes slippery lands through the pivoting-tracing root and quickly highlights the eroded lands by creating a rich layer of litter (formed by the leaves of seedlings, future trees). In addition, we want to satisfy the desire of the local community to have a forest with a melliferous role, acacia being one of the most melliferous tree species in Romania. In the local community there are many beekeepers who wanted to have a tree species capable of producing flowers in a short time, to be frequented by bees", says Aurel Nasulea, forestry engineer We Plant Good Deeds in Romania.
The action in Lapoș took place two weeks after another team of OSCAR Downstream volunteers participated in the afforestation of 3 hectares of forest in Cenei, Timis County, on the day when the planet celebrated Earth Hour.
The partnership with We Plant Good Deeds in Romania is the latest initiative in the sustainability strategy developed by OSCAR Downstream.
