As temporary stewards of the lands and waters where we operate, we recognise our responsibility to manage environmental impacts and support regional biodiversity conservation through collaboration.
UNESCO World Heritage sites
Avoid exploring or mining in UNESCO World Heritage sites and respect legally designated protected areas¹.
No net loss
Aim to achieve no net loss or net gain of biodiversity by the completion of closure².
Working with others
Collaborate with relevant stakeholders to contribute towards nature positive outcomes.
Transparent disclosure
Transparently disclose our progress and performance.
1 As defined in ICMM Nature Position Statement, sections 1.1 and 1.2.
2 For all new operations and significant expansions, no net loss or net gain shall be measured against a pre-operation or pre-expansion baseline.
We track our progress and performance through key metrics on land management, rehabilitation and biodiversity.
Find out more about our performance and progress in our Annual Report 2025 and Sustainability Databook 2025.
Our Approach to Biodiversity outlines our focus on minimising impacts to biodiversity and ecosystem services throughout the mining lifecycle.
Our operations are required to undertake biodiversity risk and opportunity screening at least every three years.
This includes direct operational aspects and pressures on the surrounding bioregions, which could be influenced by factors such as the physical impacts of climate change and changes in land use.
Identified biodiversity-related impacts associated with our activities are captured within our system of risk management.
We manage impacts and risks by implementing biodiversity management plans and applying the mitigation hierarchy – avoid, minimise, rehabilitate/restore and offset.
Restoration and progressive rehabilitation are a key step of the biodiversity mitigation hierarchy.
Progressive rehabilitation activities are integrated into our life of operation planning processes as a core component of our closure management. This is supported by monitoring and an adaptive management approach.
We seek to consult with local communities, scientific institutions and regulatory authorities to understand expectations and establish performance requirements to enable our restoration and rehabilitation activities to contribute towards the resilience of the broader landscape.
We maintain processes to comply with local laws and environmental regulatory requirements.
We monitor, assess and respond to environmental regulatory reforms within the jurisdictions in which we operate, to inform our biodiversity management practices.
We allocate resources to address biodiversity-related risks, impacts, dependencies and opportunities to enable continual improvement and innovative management approaches.
We monitor and track the effectiveness of our activities and apply an adaptive management approach. We seek to collaborate with leading researchers and land management partners to explore new techniques and opportunities.
We have established local conservation partnerships at some of our operations and are working to establish broader regional-level conservation partnerships to support our contribution to nature positive outcomes.
We actively engage in forums, seek to participate in industry bodies and collaborate with Indigenous, Traditional and Tribal Peoples and local communities, government and non-government organisations, to promote improved biodiversity conservation outcomes at local, regional and international levels.
