S-OIL Expands Natural Treasure Protection Campaign
● S-OIL makes a donation to the Yeongwol Insect Museum to protect longhorn beetles from extinction.
● The refiner is conducting systematic protection activities by organizing a natural treasure protection group consisting of university students for the first time in Korea.
S-OIL(CEO: Nasser Al-Mahasher) made a donation of 120 mil. won for protecting longhorn beetles (Natural Treasure No. 218) and supporting the Natural Treasure Protector Corps consisting of university students as the part of S-OIL’s Environmental Protection Campaign.
On July 10, S-OIL signed an agreement to launch a campaign to protect longhorn beetles from extinction in Yeongwol-gun, Gangwon Province. Participants in the signing ceremony included Lee Dae-am, the director of the Natural Treasure Insect Research Center at the Yeongwol Insect
Museum and about 40 members of the Natural Treasure Protector Corps.
The agreement will boost protecting longhorn beetles and supporting the Natural Treasure Insect Research Center’s reproduction research. The center succeeded in the artificial reproduction of longhorn beetles for the first time in Korea in May 2012.
The campaign to protect longhorn beetles is part of S-OIL’s Environmental Protection Campaign. The refiner signed a natural treasure protection agreement with the Cultural Heritage Administration in 2008. Under the agreement, it has sponsored research groups by selecting otters, cranes, and then Eoreumchi (Hemibarbus mylodon) for protection and has continuously conducted environmental protection activities with the participation of a university student volunteer group and S-OIL officers’ and employees’ families.
Earlier in the month (on July 9), S-OIL held a ceremony to launch the 5th Natural Treasure Protector Corps consisting of university students in Mapo-gu, Seoul to help university students who dream of becoming the next generation of environmental leaders to initiate environmental protection activities in a more professional way. The Natural Treasure Protector Corps consisting of 40 university students will go on a four-day trip for an eco-camp. During the trip, it will conduct activities to protect and reproduce longhorn beetles and visit the habitats of natural treasures sponsored by S-OIL, such as Cheongpyeong (Eoreumchi), Hwacheon (otters), and Cheolwon (cranes) where they will attend lectures and have diverse hands-on experiences.
“Protecting natural treasures is a concrete action to pass on an undamaged, clean natural environment to our children,” said S-OIL Senior Vice President Lee Chang-jae. “I hope that, as members of the only university student-led natural treasure protection group in Korea, you will participate actively in a wide range of activities such as the protection of natural treasure habitats, investigations and studies to increase wildlife populations, in cooperation with environmental protection organizations, living out your dreams as environmental leaders.”
