HONG KONG, June 3, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Bureau Veritas Consumer Products Services (BVCPS) announces that it will again celebrate and support World Environment Day (WED) on 5 June. This is the 8th consecutive year that BVCPS has supported WED initiatives throughout its worldwide locations.
The WED theme this year is "Go Wild for Life". The goal is to combat illegal trade in wildlife products and preserve the Earth's precious biodiversity of the endangered species from animals or plants. To echo the WED theme, BVCPS is launching a company-wide campaign to educate its employees of the importance of protecting endangered species from killing, smuggling, consuming to their extinction as well as preserving the Earth's precious biodiversity, natural heritage and sustainability.
A series of activities scheduled to honor WED around the world include:
"Zero tolerance for the illegal wildlife trade" Worldwide Campaigns: During May and June, Bureau Veritas Consumer Products Services' worldwide locations have organized / will be organizing various WED talks, workshops, and activities. Organized internally by Bureau Veritas, or partnering with third-party organizations or local schools, these activities are aimed at raising awareness, educating the people as to the importance of protecting wildlife and its existence, as well as saying no to illegal wildlife trade and consumption. These include:
"Save Endangered Wild Bees": Bureau Veritas' locations in Germany have initiated a campaign to put nests behind the lab, near a field of flowers, for wild bees' shelter. Also, the employees were encouraged to install nests in their home gardens or balconies to create bee-friendly habitats.
"Reforestation of Rainforest at Sinharaja": In collaboration with The Wild Life Association of Sri Lanka, Department of Wild Life Conservation, the employees of Bureau Veritas' Sri Lanka lab will participate in this full-day activity at Sinharaja, Sri Lanka in early June. The activity aims to restore the tropical habitat for biodiversity as well as to preserve wild flowers and fauna in the region.
"Hands-Green Day": Continuing its 8th year, the U.S. Buffalo location will organize a visit to the local Tifft Nature Preserve to plant trees and shrubs as well as to remove invasive species on 3 June. Additionally, the employees of the Vietnam and Cambodia locations will organize local tree planting events at Can Gio, a coastal area of Ho Chi Minh City, and Mekong River side in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, so as to conserve the land / soil from coastal erosion for its native habitats on 5 June.
"Preserve Wild Flowers and Native Species": The Warrington location in the UK has planted a variety of wild flowers, such as oxeye daisies, lavender, primroses and cyclamen, so as to provide natural habitat for wild bees, the primary pollinators of plants in the UK. The wild flower seeds were also given away to employees to plant in their gardens, with a lucky prize given to the best wildflower patch amongst the participants. Furthermore, new habitats were also created for hedgehogs in the area.
Other special WED events at Bureau Veritas locations around the globe include:
Oliver Butler, President of Bureau Veritas Consumer Products Services, commented: "As a world-leading supply chain solutions and sustainability solutions provider, we are again delighted to participate in, and contribute to, these wide selections of WED initiatives. Bureau Veritas' testing, inspection, certification and advisory solutions help companies make informed sourcing and design decisions in respect of quality, health, safety, and the environment."
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