CEMEX announced recently that the Wildlife Habitat Council (“WHC”) granted it the 2020 Corporate Conservation Leadership Award honouring the company’s overall achievement in biodiversity conservation efforts.

The Corporate Conservation Leadership Award is the most prestigious recognition presented annually by WHC. It signifies an exemplary corporate commitment to biodiversity and conservation education and meaningful alignments with global conservation objectives.

The WHC explained that CEMEX had received Conservation Certification status for 12 programs within this past certification cycle with a combined total of 15 qualifying projects. Projects within these programs are aligned with a corporate commitment to biodiversity conservation themes such as awareness and engagement, formal learning, landscaping, and wetlands, and large-scale initiatives.

CEMEX currently has 30 programs certified by the WHC, located in 8 U.S. states, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Panama, Poland, Costa Rica, and Colombia.

WHC certified programs include the California State Wildlife Action Plan, the Friends of Verde River Cooperative Invasive Plant Management Plan, BirdLife International, and a multi-agency research initiative for the Georgia black bear population. The Strategy for the Conservation of Chihuahuan Desert Grasslands, Program of Action for the Conservation of mammals in El Carmen Nature Reserve, the Annual Plan of the National Ramsar Committee of the Dominican Republic, and Panama’s Alliance for a Million Hectares.

To find out more go to: https://www.cemex.com/press-releases-2020