LONDON, March 4 (Reuters) - Tottenham Hotspur already have a players' hotel on their training ground but are now installing bat houses and bug hotels at their state-of-the-art complex north of London as part of a commitment to the UN-backed Sports for Nature Framework.
The club is the first in the Premier League to join the scheme which promotes protecting and regenerating nature.
Hundreds of new and semi-mature trees have already been planted at the training complex and wildflower meadows and ponds have been installed. As well, more than 500 bat houses, 25 bug hotels have also been placed around the grounds.
Organic fruit and vegetables, grown at the training ground near Enfield, already end up in the staff canteen.
Last year, Spurs earned the Biodiversity Project of the Year award at the BASIS Sustainable Sport Awards for a Biodiversity Monitoring system -- a first in sport -- which records pollination and bird activity.
"We have long been recognised as the Premier League's greenest club for the work we have done to minimise carbon emissions across our operations - it is now time for us to make a firm commitment to nature and protecting the ecosystems we cannot live without," Donna-Maria Cullen, Tottenham's Executive Director, said in a statement.
"Becoming the first signatory in the Premier League of the Sports for Nature Framework means we can now demonstrate clear action across all three pillars of the UN's definition of sustainability set out at COP29 -- People, Climate and Nature."
Sign up here.