GCEO’s Statement Biodiversity and Wildlife Conservation While not directly related to GHG emissions but having equal sustainability significance, wildlife protection and human-wildlife conflict management are closely tied to our duty as environmental stewards. These areas remain hugely important priorities. We also remain committed to our wildlife conservation programme. One of FGV’s conservation projects involves the rescue, rehabilitation and release of injured or displaced Malayan Sun Bears. This project is implemented in partnership with the Malaysian Nature Society, the Department of Wildlife and National Parks Peninsular Malaysia and the National University of Malaysia (UKM). Through this project, FGV and its partners have developed three documents namely ‘Guidelines in Managing Sun Bear in Captivity’, ‘Guidelines on Conflict Management for Sun Bear’ and ‘Malayan Sun Bear Conservation Action Plan’. We envisage these guidelines will be useful reference tools for interested parties such as conservation centres, zoos, research centres, NGOs and wildlife conservationists. While this project is ongoing, we have expanded our Protection of Rare, Endangered and Threatened Species Programme to include pygmy elephants, gibbons and pangolins, and we are exploring the possibility of developing similar guidelines in relation to these species. FGV has also embarked on a new 3-year initiative to protect and enhance High Conservation Value (HCV) and High Carbon Stock (HCS) areas within the vicinity of FGV’s and the Federal Land Development Authority (FELDA)’s plantations by planting fast growing indigenous or native tree species and wild fruit trees. Under this programme, FGV targets to plant a total of 50,000 trees in three years. Automation and digitalisation Labour shortage is an enduring challenge across the palm oil industry. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated this challenge, driving an urgent focus across the industry on leveraging automation to the maximum extent possible. Developments in information technology (IT) have widened the automation possibilities for our industry in addition to making them economically feasible through moderating the investment outlays. In addition to mitigating our labour situation, automation and digitalisation keep us relevant. Automation and digitalisation have the effect of future-proofing our plantations, allowing us to progressively reduce our reliance on manual labour, leaving us less exposed to the vagaries of labour shortages. A case in point is the mechanisation of an area 115,000 hectares of flat 14 FGV HOLDINGS BERHAD RESPONSIBLE BUSINESS ABOUT THIS REPORT RESPECTING HUMAN RIGHTS
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