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Changing the world with great care also means taking great care of the world we are changing. And that includes natural wildlife habitats.
Personnel at Bayer facilities in Bushy Park, S.C., West Haven, Conn., and Pittsburgh, Pa. have taken leadership roles in preserving the natural environment of their site locations. And their efforts have been rewarded with recognition by national and/or state organizations as wildlife habitats.
"Bayer encourages environmental stewardship," said Gary Hunt, Bayer's Health, Environment and Safety Manager who spearheaded the Pittsburgh wildlife habitat creation effort.
"A lot of companies trying to do this will cycle up and down according to employee interest," he said. "But here at Bayer we seem to be more even-keeled with steady progress."
The volunteer efforts of employees at Bayer Bushy Park bear witness to steady progress in maintaining a vibrant wildlife habitat. The site was honored in 1999 by the South Carolina Wildlife Foundation as Lower Coastal Corporate Conservator of the Year, the third time since 1994 that Bayer personnel have won this prestigious award.
Bayer West Haven volunteers and contractors collaborated to clean up and establish a nature area and preserve existing wetlands so that birds and animals can continue to thrive adjacent to Bayer's manufacturing, research and administrative facilities.
And at Bayer's American headquarters in Pittsburgh, more than 200 volunteers have given their time and expertise over two years to develop a wildlife habitat on the 300-acre campus that includes hardwood forests, open meadows and fields and ponds.
"There is quite a bit of bio-diversity at Bayer site locations," said Hunt.
Maintaining and nurturing that diversity in a natural habitat is just once more example of how Bayer takes great care of the world it is changing.
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