Treehuggers Rejoice: Audi Plants 36,000 Oaks

Though for a few years now most automakers have been struggling to save the Earth, not many decided to take an approach as direct as Audi’s: the German automaker plants 36,000 oak trees to fight CO2 emissions.

This year, Audi is taking matters into its own hands as it’s going to fund the planting of 36,00 oak trees, forming the basis of the “Oak Forest CO2 Reservoir” project. As you might imagine, the forest will be located in Kosching, near Inglostadt, Germany, where Audi has a big manufacturing facility.

The new forest will spread on six hectares and will be placed on the site where another oak forest was almost destroyed in 2007 by bark beetles, drought and sever storms. So with Audi’s help, alongside the Bavarian State Forestry and the Chair of Forest Yield Science at the Technical University of Munich, the Kösching Forest has been replanted with 36,000 Pedunculate Oaks.

The new forest will not only serve the inhabitants of Inglostadt and Audi’s marketing department, but also a wide variety of animal and plant species, as the forest provides a diverse biosphere.

This is not the only project for Audi, as the German car manufacturer has a new target in site: on an area of four hectares at their production site in Györ, Hungary, they will plant more than 13,000 Pedunculate Oaks. Plans for additional sites on other international locations are on their way, as Audi seems to remain committed sustainability and environmental protection.