Hallacement, Selected as the Best Site for the 'Endangered Species Habitat Restoration Project'

Hallace Cement was selected as the Best Project Site for the "Endangered Species Habitat Restoration Project" and received the Minister of Environment Award. From the top left clockwise: Red-spotted Apollo butterfly, Siberian flying squirrel, endangered wild plant planting event, winter wild animal feeding event.
[Photo by Hallace Cement]

[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Jonghwa] Hanla Cement announced on the 20th that it was selected as the Best Project Site for the '2020 One Company One Endangered Species Habitat Restoration Project' by the Ministry of Environment and received the Minister of Environment Award.

The One Company One Endangered Species Habitat Restoration Project is a project promoted by the Wonju Regional Environmental Office since 2012 in cooperation with major manufacturing companies in the region to restore habitats of endangered wild species that are disappearing due to large-scale development projects.

Hanla Cement, which became a subsidiary of Asia Cement in 2018, has been participating as a partner in the One Company One Endangered Species Habitat Restoration Project since it was selected as an environmental impact assessment consultation site by the Wonju Regional Environmental Office in 2014 when it belonged to the French Lafarge Group.

Aligned with Hanla Cement's "environmental management pursuing development and restoration simultaneously," the company has steadily promoted restoration and monitoring of endangered wild flora and fauna populations and habitats such as Mandarin ducks, owlets, Siberian flying squirrels, Hangeul sky lilies, and Korean bellflowers at its limestone mine reclamation sites, starting with the restoration of the habitat of the Korean red-spotted swallowtail butterfly since 2013.

In 2017, Hanla Cement signed a business agreement for the restoration of endangered species to recover the ecosystem of limestone mines with the Wonju Regional Environmental Office and Gangwon-do Natural Environment Research Park. Accordingly, every year, a joint public-private restoration event for endangered wild plants is held in the ecological restoration area of the limestone mine with the Wonju Regional Environmental Office and Gangwon-do Natural Environment Research Park. At this year's event held on June 18, 50 plants of the Hangeul sky lily, a Ministry of Environment-designated endangered wild species level II, were planted.

Kim Hakseong, Hanla Cement's mine restoration manager, said, "Considering development and nature conservation simultaneously is the premise of Hanla Cement's environmental management," adding, "Since the endangered species restoration project is one of the practical efforts for this, we plan to share ideas and promote environmental programs in various ways together with our parent company Asia Cement."