MAS Linea Aqua and CCC in reforestation project
MAS Linea Aqua inaugurated the company's latest Corporate
Environmental Responsibility initiative with Carbon Consulting Company (CCC).
Managing Director of the company, Sarinda Unamboowe planted the first
of over 1,000 rainforest saplings to expand the Hiniduma Biolink project
to mark World Environment Day 2013. Officials from MAS Linea Aqua and
the Carbon Consulting Company were present.
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Unamboowe plants the first sapling |
The Hiniduma Biolink is a reforesting project that will set up a
biodiversity corridor between the two large remaining rainforest
patches, Singharaja and Kanneliya, in Sri Lanka. It will be managed by
the Conservation Carbon Company and Rainforest Rescue International.
"It will use the analogue forestry concept to conserve buffer zones
around the forest edges. The project - sustainability; people, planet
and profit, will help rural low income farmers gain financially and have
a financial incentive to protect the surrounding forests," a spokesman
for the company said.
"The CO2 sequestered through this project (the newly planted trees)
will generate carbon credits that can be sold as Voluntary Carbon
Standard (VCS) credits in the local and international carbon markets.
This project will be partly financed through the money generated from
the sale of these carbon credits and also through the involvement of
corporate partners such as Linea Aqua," he said.
Unamboowe said, "Linea Aqua has always been an environmentally
conscious organisation in landmark conservation projects since its
inception.
"Fostering the engagement of the Corporate Sector in mitigating the
impact of climate change is one of our prime directives," said Chief
Operating Officer of Carbon Consulting Company, Sanith de Silva
Wijeyaratne.
"We empower and make partners of traditional communities living close
to tracts of natural forest where biodiversity is high, but under
threat.
Community members work with us to protect and extend forest coverage
while preserving biodiversity and restoring ecosystems under expert
supervision," he said. |
