HSBC Malta Foundation contributed €105,000 towards the nature park and sustainable development centre at Xrobb l-Għaġin, Delimara over the past three years and planted more than 25,000 trees across the island.
The information was given by Francis Sullivan, HSBC adviser on the environment and deputy head of HSBC’s Group corporate sustainability, when he visited the park a few days ago.
Accompanied by Resources and Rural Affairs Minister George Pullicino, Mr Sullivan was shown around the project by Vincent Attard, president of Nature Trust (Malta). The NGO is entrusted with the management of the afforestation project and the ministry is responsible for the trees’ upkeep.
The park relies on energy generated by renewable sources and irrigation is carried out through a biological treatment facility that converts drainage effluent water into second-class water. Situated on the site where the former Deutsche Welle relay station used to be, the park forms part of a national environmental plan transforming derelict areas into useable open spaces.