21.5.2019. Birds, bees, insects, and plants: The International day of biodiversity on 22 may. May 2019 to remind you to save the biodiversity on our planet and to promote. In this task, the Audi site in Neckarsulm and goes on for several years and is an active advocate for the preservation of biodiversity.
The measures range from nesting AIDS for birds, up to our own beehives and an insect hotel.
The operational environmental protection at the Neckarsulm site, the protection of species is a major concern, the measures for this are many: that have been recently mounted on the conveyor bridge between the buildings B16 and B09 new nest boxes for Swifts and a swallow’s tower in the South-West of the plant to be newly built. For peregrine falcons, there are the chimney of the paint shop since 2003, a Nisthilfe. Since 2014, several bee colonies on the site in Neckarsulm and at the Böllinger höfe. In addition, a year to several former areas of lawn seed be planted in mixtures with more than 35 species of flowers to create habitat and food sources for insects wants. In the past year, some of the trainees have set up so insect hotel.
What an important role biodiversity plays for us humans, explains Dr. Achim Diehlmann, environmental officer and Manager of works service in Neckarsulm: “The protection of biodiversity, alongside climate change, one of the biggest challenges to preserve our planet. We want to make at the site in Neckarsulm, our contribution to a species-rich future.“
Already in 2015, the AUDI AG, the Initiative “Biodiversity in Good Company” and has committed to analyze the impact of its business activities on biological diversity and its protection in the environmental management system.
So to the other Audi sites, projects for the conservation of the species be realized diversity and expanded. In the production site in Münchsmünster near Ingolstadt, the company creates on 17 hectares of the factory site in a near-natural habitat for animals and plants. On the so-called IN-Campus, the future Audi technology Park in the North-East of Ingolstadt, will be restored 15 acres of a former refinery site, and according to biodiversity criteria The Audi site in Neuburg on the Danube has implemented on his Site, appropriate ecological measures, and, among other things, sand piles, insect hotels and dead wood areas integrated in the terrain. Audi has already established in 2009, the Audi Foundation for the environment, who has worked with numerous projects for the protection of the natural basis of life of humans, animals and plants.
The Audi Neckarsulm site is dedicated to the preservation of species diversity (photo: AUDI AG)
