Conservation and Wildlife Habitat (Biodiversity) Protection

For example, Shell and the Smithsonian Institution signed a five-year memorandum of understanding in June 2000 to assess the impact of Shell operations on areas of high biodiversity value. The first joint project in the Gamba complex in Gabon follows extensive national and international consultation including feedback from a stakeholder workshop. Chevron Niugini Ltd., with help from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), formed The Community Development Initiative (CDI) Foundation to protect the fragile rainforests of Papua New Guinea for generations to come. Petro-Canada in partnership with the Pembina Institute for Appropriate Development, conducted a Life-Cycle Value Assessment of the MacKay River oil sands project to reduce environmental impacts. A number of companies, such as Shell, ConocoPhillips and ExxonMobil, have implemented a variety of different wildlife conservation programs in partnership with the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.

Protecting Rare Coral Reefs
About 100 miles southeast of Galveston, Texas, in the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, Anadarko is continuously collaborating with industry, federal and state government agencies and researchers to protect the northernmost coral reefs on North America's continental shelf.
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Studying Oyster Reefs in Inland Waters
Anadarko is working closely with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries on an extensive survey of oyster reefs in the inland waters of West Black Bay. The study is mapping the location of oyster reefs and assessing the quality of their sensitive habitat.
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Safeguarding Wildlife Habitats
Pine forests, wetlands, abundant wildlife and the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker are all part of the ecosystem at Anadarko's Vernon field in north central Louisiana. While operating approximately 50 natural gas wells and several drilling rigs in the field, Anadarko's careful practices minimize the impact and help protect wildlife habitats in this 90-square-mile area.
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Reviving Australia's Wetlands
BHP Billiton's 'Revive our Wetlands' program aims to protect and revitalize 100 of Australia's most important wetlands.
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Supporting Marine Life in the Gulf of Mexico
Researchers recently explored deep-sea sites in the Gulf of Mexico, including the area around BP’s Pompano platform, located about 30 miles southeast of Louisiana. What they found may ultimately help to find cures for a range of human ailments, ranging from pain and inflammation to cancer and AIDS-related infections.
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Making Conservation a Global Priority
For the last 14 years the BP Conservation Program has promoted pioneering scientific projects worldwide as part of its contribution to global conservation priorities.
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Working to Conserve the Island Grey Fox in California, USA
BP is providing sponsorship to the Nature Conservancy to support research and a conservation and recovery program for the island fox.
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Biodiversity and Environmental Education in South Carolina, USA
BP’s Cooper River plant in South Carolina has a large area of land under its stewardship, much of it rich in biodiversity. After Hurricane Hugo destroyed much of the forest in 1989, BP increased its efforts to restore and enhance the site’s forest and wildlife resources.
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Helping to Protect the Iberian Lynx in Spain
BP in Spain is working with the Global Nature Fund, (a private, non-profit foundation dedicated to protecting the environment), to support the needs of the lynx. With the advice of the Worldwide Fund for Nature, BP is also helping to restore lynx habitat in southwestern Spain operating with the NGOs Fundación Doñana and Estación Biológica de Doñana.
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Getting Back to Nature in Trinidad
When local employees realized that a peninsula of land at BP’s Galeota Point terminal on the southeastern tip of Trinidad was going to waste as an obsolete machinery store, they decided it was time they did something about it. The Galeota promontory had once been a stopping-off point for many bird species on migratory routes across the Caribbean, and the team determined to try and restore the land as a bird sanctuary.
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Helping Turtles Find Sanctuary at Ma'Dareah, Malaysia
Marine turtles are some of the ocean’s most magnificent creatures, but their survival is threatened by egg collecting, fishing practices, shoreline development, loss of habitat, marine pollution, and by being hunted for their shells and meat. Many conservation efforts have focused on establishing turtle sanctuaries where eggs can be collected and safely hatched. The Ma’Daerah model is a unique achievement. It is the first sanctuary initiated in partnership between the Department of Fisheries, WWF Malaysia and BP.
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Chevron Niugini LTD.
Chevron Niugini Ltd. (CNGL), with help from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), formed a unique NGO to protect the fragile rainforests of Papua New Guinea for generations to come. – Community Dev. Initiative (CDI).
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Barrow Island Environmental Management and Protection
Ongoing ChevronTexaco efforts to protect Barrow include: active environmental research; upgraded weed control, and biological monitoring.
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“Good Roots” Project
In a first-ever collaboration of industry, government, and academe, Caltex (Philippines) Inc. helped launch the “Good Roots” Project on Earth Day 1991. ENV-CT-3

Chevron Donates Seismic Data to American Geological Institute
Chevron and the American Geological Institute (AGI) announced a donation from Chevron to AGI of thousands of miles of historic 2D and 3D seismic data covering offshore California and portions of the West Coast of the U.S.  ENV-CT-12

Playa Lakes Joint Venture (PFJV)
ConocoPhillips has been the lead corporate participant in the PLJV since its inception, providing in-kind support, employee expertise and more than $1 million in cash contributions.
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Dunn Ranch Conservation Area
ConocoPhillips, in partnership with the National Fish & Wildlife Foundation, has awarded $200,000 to the Missouri Conservation Heritage Foundation to benefit the Dunn Ranch Bird Conservation Area project in northwestern Missouri. ENV-COP-2

George Miksch Sutton Avian Research Center
ConocoPhillips has been a key financial sponsor of the Sutton Avian Research Center in Bartlesville, OK, since its inception in 1984.
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Wolfweed Reservois Project
Named after a low-value plant that covers much of the area, the Wolfweed Reservoir Project assures fresh water and food for 250 species of birds found on the San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge in South Texas.  ConocoPhillips' Wolfweed partners are the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Ducks Unlimited and the National Fish & Wildlife Foundation.
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International Crane Foundation
ConocoPhillips is a supporter of International Crane Foundation (ICF), which is researching the migration of several species of cranes from their breeding grounds in the remote tundra of Yakutia in Siberia.
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International Migratory Bird Day
ConocoPhillips is the lead sponsor for International Migratory Bird Day (IMBD), the premier birding outreach program.
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The Nature Conservancy of Alaska
ConocoPhillips is a long-time supporter of the Nature Conservancy and recently donated $1 million to the Nature Conservancy of Alaska, making the largest corporate gift to conservation in Alaska's history.
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National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
For more than a decade, ConocoPhillips and the Foundation have worked hand-in-hand to conserve birds and other wildlife, while educating children and adults about the natural world.
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Minimizing Forest Disturbance
Environmental management is at the core of ConocoPhillips Canada's project development, as illustrated through its work with the Surmont oil sands project, near Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. The company has partnered with Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries Inc. to share road access and plan timber harvest in project areas that require clearing. This process, called Integrated Landscape Management, helps reduce the environmental footprint on the land by coordinating resource development.
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Alberta Chamber of Resources Integrated Landscape Management (ILM) Program
In 2000, the Alberta Chamber of Resources (ACR), an association of resource industries, established the need for a new program to look for opportunities for industry to minimize their disturbance to the environment through improved collaboration.
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Industrial Research Chair in Integrated Landscape Management
ConocoPhillips is a proud supporter of this research, contributing $50,000 over five years to this important research.
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Forest Biodiversity Monitoring Program in Alberta, Canada
ConocoPhillips staff has been involved in the early work to initiate the Prototype Project and has committed $80,000 over 2003 and 2004 to this important work.  The company has partnered with Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries Inc. to share road access and plan timber harvest in project areas that require clearing. This process, called Integrated Landscape Management, helps reduce the environmental footprint on the land by coordinating resource development.
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Boreal Caribou Habitat Recovery and Preservation
ConocoPhillips Canada supports the Boreal Caribou Committee, a joint government and industry committee that researches caribou and develops best practices for operating in caribou habitat.
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World-Class Grizzly Bear Research
ConocoPhillips is a participant in the Foothills Model Forest Grizzly Bear Study taking place in the Edson, Hinton and Jasper National Park areas of Alberta, Canada.
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Studying Biodiversity
ConocoPhillips is studying the biodiversity issue and plans to develop a strategy for providing a consistent way to protect and conserve biodiversity. One example can be found in the partnerships with diverse organizations the company is forming to protect the biodiversity of eastern Venezuela’s Gulf of Paria.
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Recognition for Wildlife Habitat Improvement
Devon Energy is a partner in this unique educational event that offers free hand-on activities stressing the safe and responsible use and management of our great outdoors to school children, families, and youth organizations from rural and urban communities around Wyoming.
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Rigs to Reef Program on the Texas Gulf Coast
Working with the Parks and Wildlife service and the state of Texas, Devon Energy (formally Mitchell Energy) made this idle production platform at Galveston Block 189 even more homey for marine inhabitants as it transformed the structure into a new member of the state’s “Rigs to Reefs” program. This thirteen-year-old program enables oil companies to avoid the high cost of completely removing structures in depleted fields and towing them to shore.
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Devon Energy Receives BLM Award
The Oklahoma City-based Devon Energy Corporation received in 2004 the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Director’s Four C’s award in recognition of their outstanding field operations work in the Worland, Wyoming area.
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Bird Habitat Protection
ExxonMobil Pipeline Company joined with regulatory agencies to increase habitat for protected coastal birds near the busy Houston Ship Channel in Texas.
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Save the Tiger
ExxonMobil and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation established the Save the Tiger Fund (STF) in 1995.
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Safety for Seals
Since 1999, ExxonMobil has sponsored fur seal tracking research. This has significantly increased understanding of the feeding and breeding habits of this protected species.
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Wildlife Habitats
Ecological stewardship is an integral part of Marathon Ashland Petroleum LLC’s (MAP) commitment to Responsible Care.® Through its Wildlife Habitat Program, MAP improves the appearance of its properties, supports unique ecosystems and provides opportunities for environmental education and community involvement. MAP presently has nine wildlife sites that are certified by the Wildlife Habitat Council. Several other locations have initiated projects that are expected to result in certification.
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Protecting the Environment through Voluntary Programs and Partnerships
Murphy Oil has developed partnerships to promote best practices and enhanced environmental protection for the future. Six programs exemplify Murphy's leadership.
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Innovative Tools to Minimize Environmental Impact
Working with the Pembina Institute for Appropriate Development, an independent public-interest and advocacy organization and non-profit consulting group.
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Canadian Nature Federation
Petro-Canada has joined the Canadian Nature Federation to support its initiatives by donating $25,000 to the Federation’s "Canadian Important Bird Areas Program." This program supports a variety of bird preservation initiatives in Sherwood Park, Winnipeg, St. John’s and Vancouver.
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Building Scallop Habitat
The Petro-Canada-operated Terra Nova oil development on the Grand Banks off Canada’s East Coast is hundreds of kilometers away from Newfoundland’s Placentia Bay, but it’s having a positive impact on fish habitat in the area. Terra Nova is helping to build scallop habitat in the Monkstown/Paradise Sound area as part of the Fish Habitat Compensation Plan.
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One Ocean
Petro-Canada is a key player in the implementation of One Ocean, which provides a neutral forum for the fishing and petroleum industries to communicate, exchange information and share opportunities. 
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Shell Marine Habitat Program
In 1998 the Shell Oil Company Foundation and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation announced at a special ceremony the single largest corporate donation ever made in support of marine conservation. Shell's unprecedented $5 million gift over five years has been used by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to create a conservation fund called the Shell Marine Habitat Program that will support projects to conserve, protect and enhance the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem.
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Flower Valley and the Cape Floral Kingdom
The goals of the Flower Valley project are to conserve the biodiversity of the lowland fynbos; to generate livelihoods in an area of high unemployment through sustainable harvesting of the fynbos flowers and associated micro-enterprises, such as paper-making; and to improve the quality of life of farm workers and their families through the provision of education and health services.
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Working Together for Biodiversity
Shell and the Smithsonian Institution (SI) signed a five-year Memorandum of Understanding in June 2000, under which the SI is assessing the impact of Shell operations on areas of high biodiversity value. The first joint project in the Gamba complex in Gabon follows extensive national and international consultation including feedback from a stakeholder workshop.
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America’s Wetland
In 2003, Shell committed $3 million to the educational fund of America’s WETLAND: Campaign to Save Coastal Louisiana.
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New! Shell Contributes $500,000 to Heathly Lands Initiative
Program conserves natural habitats, sustains wildlife, benefits local economies and communities.
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Protecting Beluga Whales
The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and Unocal are collaborating on a five-year research and conservation project in Alaska that will lead to better understanding of Cook Inlet beluga whales and help assure their healthy, viable population.
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Saving Indonesia's Orangutans
Unocal is pleased to support the Balikpapan Orangutan Survival Foundation (BOS), a non-profit organization that is carrying out a unique conservation project at the Wanariset Station on the island of Borneo.
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"Ridges to Reefs" Initiative in Indonesia
The Nature Conservancy and Unocal are collaborating to involve local communities to build awareness and promote conservation and sustainable livelihoods in a “ridges to reefs” initiative in imperiled marine and terrestrial landscapes near Berau in the Indonesian province of East Kalimantan.  ENV-UN-3

Creating Opportunities, Protecting Species
Unocal Geothermal Indonesia and the Unocal Foundation are involved with local researchers, community groups, and Wildlife Trust to conduct research and education and promote sustainable small enterprises and local farmers and villagers based on the rich biodiversity in the Gunung Salak Nature Reserve in Indonesia.
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Collaborating to Create Shared Vision and Develop Plans
Unocal recently became involved with the Coastal Resources Management Plan project in Indonesia – a collaborative effort among a growing number of community associations, nongovernmental organizations, companies, and government agencies (global and local) to develop a plan for managing the important coastal resources of Balikpapan and surrounding communities along the East Kalimantan coast.
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