Hamburg’s logistics plants the future
On November 1, the time had come: Under the motto “Hamburg’s logistics plants the future”, the Hamburg Logistics Initiative organized a planting day in the Klövensteen forest together with its member companies. They donated 2,700 deciduous trees, all of whose seedlings were planted. The Hamburg office of PTA IT-Beratung Hamburg is a climate sponsor of the initiative and is committed to sustainability in the region. The aim of the planting day is to offset a company’s water consumption by planting regional deciduous trees, thus creating natural, regional resources. The response was correspondingly great. Around 170 participants made their way to the Klövensteen forest, where dead forest areas were reforested.
The planting day, which was organized by the Hamburg Logistics Initiative at the beginning of November, was organized by Klimapatenschaft GmbH, which is planning three more planting days on site in November 2021. The Klövensteen forest is one of the most important local recreation areas and the green lung in the region around Hamburg. The contiguous nature reserve covers an area of more than 513 hectares and extends far into Schleswig-Holstein. As the forest is not used commercially by the Klövensteen district forestry office of the Hamburg-Altona district authority as a recreational and natural forest, the planted trees can reach a great age.
The aim of the planting day was and is to make a regional and sustainable commitment and to make an active contribution to climate protection and the reforestation of dead forest areas. The planted deciduous trees create a drinking water forest: all participating companies offset their water consumption and thus create natural, regional resources. At the end of the planting campaign, the climate sponsorship representatives issued a certificate stating the number of trees planted and the amount of water offset. This reforestation is therefore a concrete contribution to climate protection.
Due to the high number of participants (170 people), the organizers of the climate sponsorship formed eight groups. Under expert guidance and in compliance with the applicable hygiene regulations, the tree sponsors set to work planting the seedlings they had donated. The selection of the deciduous trees to be donated and planted was made exclusively by the Klövensteen forestry district. This was based on the individual conditions of the forest area that was to be redesigned and replanted. For the physical well-being of the planting teams, a specially set up supply station was available where the hard-working participants could quench their thirst.
Gerd Minners, Account Manager in Sales at the PTA branch in Hamburg, took part in Group 2 together with Christian Krüger, Managing Director of catkin GmbH. “In our group, we planted beech, oak and maple trees in a section of forest where diseased and dead spruce trees had been removed,” reports Gerd Minners. “As a team of two and suitably equipped with the right clothing, wellies, our own spade and gloves, we managed to plant lots of little trees. And in good weather, which is certainly not a matter of course at the beginning of November. We also achieved a good result and had a lot of fun together,” says a satisfied Minners about the successful planting campaign in the Klövensteen forest.
The overall results of the planting campaign on November 1 are impressive: The 170 participants planted all 2,700 small deciduous trees in just one day, thus ensuring that the areas of dead and diseased conifers in the Klövensteen forest will grow into a healthy deciduous forest in the future.
Photos: Jan Brandes Photography
