NEW ORLEANS, LA, JUNE 6, 2024 – Flora and fauna Habitat Council (WHC) introduced the winners of its 2024 WHC Awards throughout the WHC Conservation Convention held in New Orleans, Louisiana, on June 4-5. The WHC Awards honor excellence in company conservation, with awardees representing more than a few nationwide and global firms throughout industries.
The yr’s most sensible awards, spotting management in company conservation, have been gained by means of Freeport-McMoRan, WM and El Sobrante Landfill and Flora and fauna Maintain.
“WHC applauds our participants, together with WM and Freeport-McMoRan, for his or her exceptional accomplishments over the past yr,” mentioned Margaret O’Gorman, President, WHC. “The firms and techniques venerated by means of this yr’s WHC Awards are main by means of instance, illustrating how the non-public sector can take motion to make each and every act of conservation subject. This can be a privilege to acknowledge the efforts of those leaders in company sustainability.”
The Worker Engagement Award, given to Freeport-McMoRan, celebrates the exemplary contributions of 1 corporate’s staff against their habitat and conservation schooling efforts.
The 2024 Gold Program of the 12 months Award, which honors the total intensity of 1 company conservation program, was once awarded to WM for its El Sobrante Landfill and Flora and fauna Maintain in Corona, California.
WM won this yr’s Company Conservation Management Award, which acknowledges one corporate’s total fulfillment in conservation and commends their company dedication to biodiversity, conservation schooling and alignment with world conservation targets.
Along with those company and program-level awards, person tasks are identified for excellence in every of the WHC Venture Steering topics. This award class provides tasks of all sizes the power to compete for reputation.
Freeport-McMoRan was once the yr’s maximum venerated corporate, receiving the WHC Worker Engagement Award along with 4 challenge awards (Bats, Mammals, Marine Intertidal and Species of Fear) spotting their species and habitat conservation efforts in Peru and Indonesia.
The next is an entire record of 2024 WHC Award Winners:
WHC Company Conservation Management Award
WM
WHC Worker Engagement Award
Freeport-McMoRan
WHC Gold Program of the 12 months Award
WM, Waste Control El Sobrante Landfill and Flora and fauna Maintain | Corona, California
Avian Venture Award
Covia, Emmett Facility | Emmett, Idaho
Consciousness and Neighborhood Engagement Venture Award
Cemex, Tamuín “Caliza y Arcilla” (México) | San Luis Potosi, Mexico
Bats Venture Award
Freeport-McMoRan, Unidad de Producción Cerro Verde | Arequipa, Peru
Caves Venture Award
Constellation, Criterion Wind | Oakland, Maryland
Wasteland Venture Award
Cemex, Atotonilco: Cerro Jardín + Xoyatla + Coayuca (Mexico) | Hidalgo, Mexico
Forests Venture Award
Anglo American Quellaveco, Quellaveco | Moquegua, Peru
Formal Finding out Venture Award
Cemex, Middle Hill Mine | Middle Hill, Florida
Grasslands Venture Award
Occidental Petroleum Company, Prairie Wetland Conservation House | Wichita, Kansas
Inexperienced Infrastructure Venture Award
BlueTriton Manufacturers, Inc., Dual Creek Nature House | Evart, Michigan
Invasive Species Venture Award
Ontario Energy Technology, Western Waste Control Facility & Bruce Complicated | Ontario, Canada
Invasive Species Coordinated Approaches Venture
Occidental Petroleum Company, Belle | Belle, West Virginia
Land Conservation Agreements Venture Award
Constellation, Criterion Wind | Oakland, Maryland
Landscaped Venture Award
Exelon, Pepco – WaterShed for Sustainability | Rockville, Maryland
Mammals Venture Award
Freeport-McMoRan, PTFI | Papua, Indonesia
Marine Intertidal Venture Award
Freeport-McMoRan, PTFI | Papua, Indonesia
Different Species Venture Award
Boeing, Santa Susana Box Laboratory | Canoga Park, California
Pollinators Venture Award
Covia, Tunnel Town | Tomah, Wisconsin
Remediation Venture Award
Boeing, Santa Susana Box Laboratory | Canoga Park, California
Reptiles and Amphibians Venture Award
CRH, Dufferin Aggregates Acton Quarry | Ontario, Canada
Rocky Spaces Venture Award
WM, Waste Control El Sobrante Landfill and Flora and fauna Maintain | Corona, California
Species of Fear Venture Award
Freeport-McMoRan, Unidad de Producción Cerro Verde | Arequipa, Peru
Coaching Venture Award
Cemex, In a position Combine USA Regional Place of business | Birmingham, Alabama
Wetlands and Water Our bodies Venture Award
Bacardi, Bombay Sapphire Distillery | Hampshire, United Kingdom
Award finalists and winners have been selected from WHC Certification packages submitted between January 1, 2023 – December 31, 2023, that have been granted certification. Knowledge on award standards will also be discovered right here.
About WHC
WHC (Flora and fauna Habitat Council) has been running on the nexus of industrial and biodiversity for 35 years and is the one global NGO targeted completely on enabling non-public sector motion for nature. WHC builds methods and frameworks for corporations to combine nature with local weather, fairness and engagement to fortify sustainable ecosystems and wholesome communities. WHC’s company participants constitute one of the crucial main nationwide and multinational companies. WHC-certified techniques will also be present in 19 international locations and 48 U.S. states. Be told extra at www.wildlifehc.org.