Public institution-corporate partnership aims to broaden participation in biodiversity conservation
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The National Honam Institute of Biological Resources, an agency under the Ministry of Climate, Environment and Energy, announced Wednesday that it is conducting biodiversity survey activities with Samsung Electronics employees.
The initiative was designed to promote environmental conservation awareness through field-based education, bringing together a corporate partner and a public research institution to share the importance of biodiversity protection while allowing participants to directly observe and document living organisms.
The institute carried out the surveys with Samsung Electronics employees over two days beginning Sept. 5 at Meonae Ecological Park in Suwon and along the Gamcheon Bridge area in Gumi, both near Samsung Electronics facilities.
About 90 employees and their family members joined institute experts to observe and record species across four taxonomic groups — birds, insects, plants and fish.
A follow-up survey is scheduled for Thursday at Samsung Electronics' Gwangju facility, with about 40 employees from that site expected to take part.
Park Jin-young, director of the National Honam Institute of Biological Resources, said biodiversity is "the most important asset for a sustainable future in an era of climate crisis," adding that protecting it requires the attention and participation of both the public and the private sector. "We will continue to expand biodiversity education and survey activities in partnership with businesses and local communities, and actively pursue cooperative projects for the conservation and sustainable use of Korea's biological resources," Park said.
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