BORAL TIMBER employees are firm in the belief that your word is your bond, even if it means a lot of extra work. They recently planted 1,000 trees and shrubs in the Wisemans Ferry area of NSW to honour a promise to Conservation Volunteers Australia during a promotion.
The site where the trees and shrubs (a combination of eucalypts, tea-trees, paperbarks, wattles and she-oaks) were planted is a small privately-owned cattle property. Its landholder had joined the River Restoration program, which is designed to restore the health of rivers in the Hawkesbury catchment and is managed by Hawkesbury Nepean Catchment Management Authority and Baulkham Hills Council.
In preparation for the planting, the landholder fenced off 1.5km of the riverbank, which was wearing away as a result of grazing cattle. By removing the cattle and restoring vegetation, the ultimate aim is to stabilise the bank and to reduce erosion.
“We’re delighted that representatives from Boral Timber were keen to get involved in this very worthy cause,” said Steve Dadd, general manager of Boral Timber, East Coast Hardwoods. “It has been the perfect opportunity for Boral Timber to demonstrate its ongoing support for sustainable practice and Conservation Volunteers’ work.”
“Boral has been working with us for 20 years and thanks to their support we’ve been able to achieve a significant number of broad planting programs, that have made positive impacts to sites around the country to help improve habitat quality and biodiversity,” said Ms Sam Robinson, Conservation Volunteers Australia.
[The Boral Timber Flooring promotion, which ran earlier this year, promised to undertake plantings based on the amount of timber flooring sold during the promotion. In total, 1300 stems will be planted in Conservation Volunteers projects through Boral’s support.]
