Can development NGOs and the mining industry find common ground in a developing country? We believe so — working to incorporate biodiversity into mining operations and share the rewards fairly with communities.
Conservation International, in collaboration with Conservation Alliance–Ghana, is implementing a biodiversity project with Newmont Ghana Gold Limited (NGGL) aimed at incorporating biodiversity into the mining operations at the Ahafo mine.
Working with a mining company carries both opportunities and risks. We help ensure that workers, their families and communities share adequately in the economic and social rewards — and that sustainable livelihoods remain when an operation winds down.
Turning a mining footprint into shared, lasting value for biodiversity and communities alike.
We help NGGL embed biodiversity into its operations at the Ahafo mine — ensuring communities share the rewards, that livelihoods endure beyond the mine's life, and that corporate reputation as a good citizen is enhanced.
In rural Africa, biodiversity provides food, medicines, fuel, building materials, livelihoods and even cultural and religious identity. We've built a formal system for involving communities in assessing the biodiversity values of their environments.
Development NGOs and the mining industry can work together. Our BBOP collaboration with NGGL shows how sound biodiversity practice and responsible mining can reinforce one another.
Working with or for a mining company brings both. Handled well, it delivers real value for people and nature at the Ahafo mine and beyond.
Workers, families and communities share adequately in the economic and social benefits.
Livelihoods that continue even after the mining operation winds down.
A stronger standing for the company as a genuine good corporate citizen.
Over the years, CI–Ghana with partners — particularly CA — has developed a formal system for involving rural communities in assessing the biodiversity and biodiversity values of their physical environments.
Food, medicine, fuel and building materials drawn from nature.
Religious and cultural identity rooted in the natural world.
A formal, participatory system for valuing local biodiversity.
We help companies embed biodiversity into their operations and share value fairly with communities. Let's find common ground.
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