Teck Donates $10-million to Chilean Nature Fund to Support Chile’s Protected Marine Areas Program and Juan Fernández Archipelago - Seite 2

"The conservation of biodiversity challenges all of us, opening up possibilities for social and economic transformation and involving parties from different fields," explains Bárbara Saavedra, President of the Board of Directors of Fondo Naturaleza Chile. “The challenge is enormous and there are several organizations that have come together in a broad, and inclusive effort way for the conservation of nature,”

“The approach of the community of Juan Fernández has been to jointly create the implementation of the Chilean Marine Areas Program with parties who have already been working in our territory and are aware of the challenges of its management. It is a different approach that we acknowledge,” says the mayor of the Municipality of Juan Fernández, Pablo Manríquez. "Our community is the guardian of its territory and actively participates in its management and care."

Teck Partnering to Conserve Nature
In 2022, Teck became the first mining company to commit to a goal of becoming nature positive by 2030.

In just one year, Teck has announced total conservation investments to protect 51,500 hectares, which is equal to four and half times the area of the City of Vancouver.

Click here to learn more about Teck’s nature positive goal.

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Background: The Juan Fernández Islands

• The Juan Fernández Archipelago is a set of islands located in the South Pacific, 670 km off the coast of Chile.
• Home to a population of approximately 1,000 people, 99% of the archipelago was declared a National Park in 1935.
• The archipelago was declared a Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO in 1977 and expanded in 2019 to help protect the large number of endemic species (approximately 130), many of which are endangered due to the introduction of invasive species.
• The archipelago and Biosphere Reserve includes the islands of Robinson Crusoe, Alexander Selkirk, and Santa Clara and all the islets in the area. Alexander Selkirk is named after an 18^th century sailor who was shipwrecked there alone for more than four years, whose story inspired Daniel Defoe to write the novel Robinson Crusoe.
• The archipelago and its community are a global example of how to reconcile biodiversity conservation with sustainable use.