As industry was showcasing rehabilitated quarry and mine sites on European Minerals Day (15-17 May) and arguing that mining can actually create new habitats, the European Commission was underlining that protecting biodiversity begins with preventing and reducing the damage caused by mining in the first place.

icmm biodiversity guidelines

This appears to be a bit  of a dividing line. Ive been looking at Anglo American and they do have a lot on biodiversity.

However working in partnership the issue of biodiversity conservation can become more than tokenistic. For example, governments, miners and civil society should come together to creae ‘green corridors’ that allow species to migrate in biodiverse regions.

As product lifecycles come to the fore, information about materials in all products will proliferate.

eg. Mobile phones and metals (from where).

Downloads wmvs and mpgs from a European conference on biodiversity and business recently held in Athens here