The protection and conservation of the Earth's nature and biodiversity is one of the greatest challenges of our time. Areas of overwhelming richness and fragile environment are located in Gabon with Shell Gabon's major activities carried out in a protected area in the heart of the rain-forest. Protective environmental measures are considered of eminent importance. These are critical to meet Shell's objective of responsible exploration combined with the conservation of an unique ecology. In this context several initiatives are actively pursued: (i) dedicated emissions reducing projects are either implemented or nearing realisation (2) re-vegetation programmes are executed to minimise the impact of deforestation and (3) a Biodiversity project was started to document biological diversity in areas in and out of oil operations.

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