Recently, HeidelbergCement has partnered with the BirdLife International foundation, a preservation group, to promote biodiversity at quarrying sites supplying the cement giant. Already a leader in promoting this diversity, HeidelbergCement hopes to further strengthen its lead in this field which started with the issuance of a binding guideline on biodiversity management in 2009, the first of companies to do so.
Bernd Scheifele, Chairman of the Managing Board of HeidelbergCement and a signer of the agreement between the two companies, said, “This open and cooperative collaboration should also send a message to our stakeholders. We will give BirdLife insight into the workings of our quarries and sand and gravel pits throughout the Group and implement biodiversity management projects at these sites together. These projects should make our impact on flora and fauna transparent, assess the effects, and deliver improved approaches that will allow us to give back to nature more than we have taken.”