The resources deployed to the project

A team of 85 QMM employees under the guidance of Manon Vincelette, head of Community Affairs, Biodiversity and Sustainable Development works on a number of environmental projects, including:

• Tree nurseries, seed storage and propagation facilities;
• Ecological restoration and reforestation of mined areas;
• Creation of non-invasive fuel wood plantations;
• Research into the viability of non-timber forest products;
• Creation of new protected area on inside and outside the mining areas (the latter being “offsets” against the negative impacts of mining activities);
• Endemic flora species programme; and
• Monitoring and management of mammals, primates, reptiles, amphibians, birds, fishes, and invertebrates populations.