Bio-Diversity Restoration

“Biodiversity Policy” identifies the companies expressed commitment to ensure the comprehensive and credible management of biodiversity risks within its operations to ensure seamless project development and operation and attainment of a global leadership position for biodiversity conservation.

BMPs are intended to assist these companies develop, implement and monitor biodiversity actions to:

• Ensure no-net loss of biodiversity in situations where natural habitats that contain threatened, protected, endemic and migratory/ congregator species, are converted or degraded; and

• Avoid any conversion or degradation of Critical Habitats.

Objectives:

•Avoid and or reduce impacts to biodiversity.

•Provide for the progressive ecological restoration of mine-altered sites in a manner which restores biodiversity and associated ecosystem services.

•Attempt to result in a long-term net-gain in targeted biodiversity components from pre-mine conditions

•Provide opportunities for community engagement in BMP implementation activities, such as on-site and off-site ecological restoration, adoption of more biodiversity friendly livelihoods and community outreach.