Eight Community Forest Officers have graduated from First Quantum Minerals’ Forest Resource Protection Programme to enforce the law, create awareness and promote ecologically-based business opportunities in Lualaba and Bushingwa National Forests neighbouring its Sentinel Mine in Kalumbila.
Continue ReadingEmirates has revealed that nearly a third of its dedicated fleet of transport buses for cabin crew in Dubai will now operate on biofuel, taking another step forward on its environmental mission to reduce emissions.
Continue ReadingFirst Quantum Minerals’ Kalumbila Minerals Limited has handed over the Ntambu Community Game Reserve to Chief Ntambu’s chiefdom of Mwinilunga District in North-Western Province to establishing conservation-based economies around the West Lunga Game Management Area.
Continue ReadingGemfields – which operates and owns 75% of the Kagem emerald mine in Zambia in partnership with the Zambian government’s Industrial Development Corporation (IDC)- has partnered with international conservation charity Space for Giants to launch Walk for Giants, a fundraising and awareness-building campaign for African wildlife conservation.
Continue ReadingTwelve communities in the Luangwa Valley are benefitting from direct cash payments of K50 million thanks to a partnership with forest conservation business BCP (BioCarbon Partners).
Continue ReadingThe Zambia Environmental Management Agency (ZEMA) has stepped-up promotion of the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) Regulations Statutory Instrument No. 65 of 2018 by launching a media awareness campaign to highlight existing waste minimisation and recycling practices.
Continue ReadingFirst Quantum Minerals will continue to implement an effective Environmental Management System (EMS) to maintain and promote sound environmental practices while reducing environmental risks at its Sentinel and Kansanshi mines in North-Western Province.
Continue ReadingAs Dubai begins welcoming international visitors, the Emirates Group is celebrating 20 years of partnership with the Dubai Desert Conservation Reserve (DDCR) and the release of the first DDCR annual report.
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