On the occasion of the International Biodiversity Day on 22 May 2019, Volkswagen is calling on all corporate brands and locations to provide support to nature conservation projects and especially conserve insects under the motto 'Biodiversity as a livelihood'.

As in previous years, the commitment of employees and company sites is strongly geared to the characteristics and needs of their region. These include measures for insect protection, such as the creation and management of flowering meadows and insect hotels or afforestation with native plants, and the monitoring of species development at the company site and environmental education programs.

Among the key commitments of the Volkswagen brand are the reforestation of the Mexican national park Iztaccíhuatl-Popocatépetl with native plants and cooperation with the Dyer Island Conservation Trust in South Africa for the protection of sharks and penguines.

For example, Audi has converted 17 hectares on the factory premises at the Audi production facility in Münchsmünster into semi-natural habitats for animals and plants, and is renaturating 15 hectares in the IN-Campus, a former industrial wasteland.

Volkswagen Financial Services is particularly committed to the protection and renaturation of peatlands as carbon sinks and is investing several million euros in more than 19 project areas in Germany, Poland and the Baltic States from 2012 to 2022 - in cooperation with the Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU).

Audi, Porsche, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, MAN and ŠKODA have initiated large-scale tree planting campaigns. As part of the campaign 'For every ŠKODA sold in the Czech Republic' ŠKODA alone ensured that more than 820,000 trees were planted in more than one hundred locations from 2007 to 2018.

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