OHL joins the World Biodiversity Day in the aim to reduce environmental impact

The OHL Group has joined the celebration of World Biodiversity Day and is showing its commitment by developing its activities under a guiding need to protect natural resources and biodiversity. Environmental management, the protection of nature and sustainable development are key issues for OHL, as it believes that progress should follow sustainability conditions as an effective means for social growth in the areas where it is present.

Over 2016, the Group has launched nearly 40 measures in protected areas or unprotected areas of high biodiversity value. Furthermore, it has carried out land protection measures over a surface area of 1,062 hectares (ha), equivalent to more than one thousand football fields, and has completed the environmental restoration of 4,111 ha in the various countries where it is executing infrastructure projects.

In order to avoid and reduce any impact on surroundings and their biodiversity, OHL is implementing environmental impact mitigation measures through reforestation, organic soil conservation, the handling of forest waste and the rescue of plants and animals.

The main activities carried out by the OHL Group include the Lake Belt, in the USA, where protection berms have been constructed around the lake, to avoid the dumping of sediment and to guarantee water quality control; in Mexico, Parque Nacional Insurgente Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, action is underway to rescue and relocate wild animals, as well as reforestation; and in Spain, Parque Natural de Jandía, periodic watering is carried out to reduce the amount of suspended dust.

For more information on the importance of biodiversity, please click here. 

Picture of the mangrove swamp, located in the Mayakoba tourist complex in Mexico.