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involvement as an opportunity to work collaboratively with
both the governments and key NGO stakeholder groups that
are interested in our progress on development of the Project
while maintaining our corporate social responsibilities.
Land Disturbance Reviews were also completed for the
Mineral Terminal Facility Delineation in Cameroon and the
Congo Trial Mining Area Extension at Nabeba. The Land
Disturbance Review is a process where Land Tenure,
Environment, Biodiversity, Cultural Heritage and Community
are surveyed prior to the clearing of land to ensure all
stakeholders are engaged in a consultative process,
minimising the potential impacts of land disturbance.
Cam Iron SA and Congo Iron SA continue to support and
build partnerships with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and
the Tri-National Dja-Odzala-Minkebe (TRIDOM) which aim to
reduce the rate of forest degradation and loss of biodiversity
through increased local, regional and national natural resource
management capacity.
The Company also collaborated with the WWF, the Ministry of
Forest and Wildlife (MINFOF) and regional Security Forces to
develop anti-poaching strategies. This collaboration provides
important information to Field Patrols (poacher’s tracks, traps
presence, poacher’s camps, GPS coordinates, etc).
Sundance established a 156,672 ha offset forest area for
perpetual biodiversity conservation, referred to as FMU
10-034, located just north of the Mbarga mine in the high
conservation value Ngoyla-Mintom forest landscape in
Cameroon. This offset forest has been formally recognised in
a decree from the Government of Cameroon.
The Company also continues to enjoy its partnership
with Ape Action Africa (AAA), a not-for-profit organisation
supporting the Mefou National Park near Yaoundé in
Cameroon. AAA is committed to ape conservation in Africa
by protecting Cameroon’s great apes through direct action,
including rescuing orphaned gorillas, chimpanzees and
monkeys and providing a safe forest sanctuary.
Sundance plays an active role to support AAA by providing
funding to the Mefou Primate Sanctuary including potential
release programs, assisting with promoting education
programs involving local communities surrounding the Mefou
Primate Sanctuary about the risks facing wild primates and
how communities can help to ensure survival of primate
species; and facilitating community projects prioritising
alternative income sources for local people in order to
reduce illegal poaching.
As the Project continues to evolve and we prepare to move
into the construction phase, we will continue to further
strengthen our international sustainable development
commitments to ensure we maintain a high standard of
operations in line with the International Standards such as
the Equator Principles III which underpins our social licence
to operate.