To mark Earth Week 2012, held from 16 to 22 April and Earth Day 2012 on 22 April, 21 eager team members of the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (the Centre) planted 60 trees from an endangered species, the Shorea roxburghii or Meranti Temak Nipis, as it is known locally, at the Forest Research Institute Malaysia’s (FRIM) Kepong Botanic Gardens in Kuala Lumpur. 

The Centre’s tree-planting initiative started with its 2010 Client Appreciation Cocktail when it decided to use monies allocated for a 5^th anniversary commemorative gift to fund the planting of 80 trees instead. 

“Since then,” said Mr Alan Pryor, Deputy General Manager, Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, “all monies that would have been spent on gifts for the annual Client Appreciation Cocktail and Association Seminar have gone towards the planting of selected endangered species here, as our way of offsetting carbon emissions and committing to conservation and sustainable development within the context of our business.” 

And to further celebrate Earth Week 2012, the Centre created an 11-foot high ‘Pledge Tree’ where 133 team members’ pledges to Mother Earth, written on a leaf-like piece of card were hung. The pledges were added to the 100,000 green pledges required to enter the Malaysian Book of Records and the worldwide total of 1 billion green pledges to make it the world’s largest-ever environmental service movement.

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