This year, we renewed our partnership with Fauna & Flora International [FFI] to ensure that we continue to address the dependencies and impacts of our mining projects and operations on local biodiversity. Learn more about our work together and the benefits achieved.
When you mine, certain environmental impacts cannot be avoided.
Mining activities have the potential to affect habitats and species through land disturbance, land-use change and pollution. That’s why biodiversity management is a key activity at Anglo American.
It’s important that we build strong partnerships to ensure that we identify and implement opportunities to improve the conservation of biodiversity, achieve best practice in biodiversity management and identify ways to contribute to conservation in areas where we are active.
"Together, we believe Anglo American and FFI can achieve sustainability objectives that will benefit biodiversity and the local communities dependent on nature. Working with Anglo American, FFI is able to influence decision making, change operation performance and objectives and resolve potential conflict and competition for vital natural resources, such as water.
"This results in the avoidance of impacts to biodiversity and the protection of nature, which is FFI's ultimate goal. Anglo American gains by reducing its footprint, avoiding and managing potentially conflictual situations with local communities and other stakeholders, and is able to make better informed decisions about its role within the landscapes in which it operates. In this way, the partnership with FFI helps to reduce business risk whilst deriving conservation gains.”
What began with FFI reviewing our Biodiversity Action Plans (BAPs) at operations in South Africa, Brazil, Namibia and providing advice to the corporate headquarters in the UK has turned into an enduring strategic commitment on biodiversity and conservation.
