Ternium Takes Ecological Initiative to Protect our Planet
On Earth Day, Ternium, a leading steel and mining company, shared its current initiatives aimed at taking care of the communities where it operates. The company has taken a strong stance on decarbonization and is actively implementing actions to care for the environment. Its strategy against climate change includes international initiatives that protect the flora and fauna around its plants.
Ternium conducts fieldwork before starting construction of new facilities to preserve biodiversity. It also maintains a continuous control and surveillance program in conservation areas. The company defines ecological connectivity between its terrain and natural ecosystems, develops rescue programs to release wildlife in those areas, and installs wildlife connectivity gates for reptiles, amphibians, and small mammals.
The company's initiatives include protecting 600 hectares of mangroves within Sepetiba Bay, near its Rio de Janeiro plant. Ternium collaborates with the Botos de Sepetiba project of the Carlos Chagas Filho Biophysics Institute and the NGO Boto Cinza Institute, which studies more than 30 animals between dolphins and whales.
Ternium also maintains an alliance with the Rewilding Argentina Foundation to reintroduce endangered species such as jaguars and giant otters in the region of the Esteros del Iberá. Its Fisheries Industrial Center has 99 hectares of ecological reserve where 32,386 specimens of flora and 681 of fauna have been rescued, including birds, rabbits, and coyotes.
After the greenfield project of Palmar de Varela in Colombia, Ternium implemented a wildlife rescue and relocation program that has resettled more than 1,200 animals, including amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. In Mexico, a reforestation project has been maintained for two years in Planta Guerrero to increase green areas. In the last five years, around 400,000 trees have been planted in the old mining operations located in the states of Colima, Jalisco, and Michoacán.