S-OIL launches efforts to protect endangered natural treasures, otters and longhorn beetles

● S-OIL made a donation of 60 mil. won for protecting natural treasures and conducted volunteer work along with about 100 employees and their families.

S-OIL (CEO Nasser Al-Mahahser) conducted volunteer work to protect otters and longhorn beetles from extinction along with about 100 employees and their families in Hwacheon and Yeongwol, Gangwon Province for two days, starting Oct. 25. The refiner also made a donation of 60 mil. won to the Association of Korean Otter Conservation and the Natural Treasure Insect Research Center to support their research and protection efforts.

In line with its initiative to protect natural treasures, S-OIL organized this event to communicate the importance of environmental protection and the restoration of species diversity. Participants visited the Korean Otter Research Center in Hwacheon and the Yeongwol Insect Museum in Yeongwol, Gangwon Province and had ecological experiences on otters and longhorn beetles there. Also, by conducting volunteer work to clean up their habitats, they had a chance to recognize the cultural and ecological value and importance of endangered natural treasures. 

As part of its Campaign to Protect Natural Treasures, S-OIL signed a natural treasure protection agreement with the Cultural Heritage Administration in May 2008. Under the agreement, it selected endangered Eoreumchi, cranes, otters, and longhorn beetles for protection, and increased their populations and protected their habitats as part of its sponsorship drive.