At Pana Chocolate they live by the motto Love Your Insides. Love The Earth. They want their chocolate to be good for you, and kind to the earth. Pana Chocolate are proud supporters in helping organisations such as Fifteen Trees, Landcare Australia, WetLand Care Australia,  Sea Shephard and Peter Singer to continue to achieve their goals

This year, Pana Barbounis, founder of Pana Chocolate,  has generously donated 9,600 trees to Fifteen Trees for distribution to community groups in Victoria and NSW. This Lismore (NSW) planting site is one of 6 areas to receive Pana trees. Other areas include University of Newcastle, Kinglake, Flowerdale, Brisbane Ranges and Botany Bay National Park.

Restoring the habitat of Hollingsworth Creek

Hollingsworth Creek is located in the township of Lismore in northern NSW. This small but important creek is a tributary of the Wilsons River. Historical clearing and land use activities have left much of Hollingsworth Creek devoid of any vegetation leading to erosion issues and lack of habitat for aquatic and terrestrial fauna species.

Despite this, Hollingsworth creek does support a small remnant of Lowland Rainforest which is an Endangered Ecological Community (EEC) and also two threatened flora species Thorny Pea (Desmodium acanthocladum) and the endangered Sweet Myrtle (Gossia fragrantissima).

WetlandCare Australia and Conservation Volunteers Australia, in partnership with Fifteen Trees, Pana Chocolate and South Lismore Landcare have successfully undertaken a native re-vegetation planting to restore the vegetation community of Hollingsworth Creek. Restoring this site will enhance fauna habitat and improve the water quality in the Wilson River catchment.

Eli Dutton | Senior Project Officer | WetlandCare Australia

Pana kindly donated one hundred trees to this project. Wetland Care Australia and Conservation Volunteers were delighted to receive the contribution.

Massive THANK YOU to Pana and your team (in particular Imogen, Ashleigh and Amanda), from all the organisations and people involved planting your trees.

If you would like to know more about sponsoring community tree planting projects and how we can assist you in becoming a more sustainable business, please contact Colleen at <[email protected]>.

Writer: Colleen B. Filippa

With a background in Environmental Science, Colleen is the Founding Director of Fifteen Trees. In 2009, after 20 years in primary, secondary and tertiary education institutions, Colleen left the classroom to start the company. Fifteen Trees is a social enterprise assisting individuals and companies to reduce their carbon footprint by supporting community groups such as Landcare, schools and environmental networks.