It all began in 2007 as a simple idea: planting trees on land where sugar canes could not grow adequately.

Hence a SARIS team has periodically planted eucalyptuses since 2007. A total of 8,500 trees have already been planted so far! Those plantations now form a beautiful wood covering 32 acres.

Congolese weather helps eucalyptuses grow fast and some trees are already vying with the height of the sugar plant roof.

That "blooming" experience encouraged the SARIS-CONGO to undertake an afforestation project with a clear target: planting 7,000 trees every year.

As a result 1,200 trees were planted during the month of November 2009.

A eucalyptus forest of about 2.5 acres helps absorb 12 tons of CO₂ every year.

In 2010 another 50 acres of trees will be planted. The annual absorption of CO² for that surface will reach 240 tons - a significant amount for a company based on a continent hardly responsible for emitting greenhouse gases.

Let us note that China releases 6.1 million tons of CO₂ a year. As a comparison the United States release 5.9 millions tons a year and France 408,000 tons.