● S-OIL selects 40 university students to join the Natural Treasure Protector Corps in order to cultivate the next generation of environmental leaders.
- It will conduct systematic activities such as investigations and studies to protect natural treasure habitats and to increase wildlife populations.
S-OIL (Representative Nasser Al-Mahasher) held a ceremony for launching the 7th Natural Treasure Protector Corps consisting of university students at the auditorium of its headquarters in Mapo-gu, Seoul as part of its Environmental Protection Campaign on Jul. 13.
The refiner launched a Natural Treasure Protector Corps consisting of university students for the first time in Korea to help university students who dream of becoming the next generation of environmental leaders to initiate environmental protection activities in a more professional way. After the launching ceremony, the Natural Treasure Protector Corps consisting of 40 university students who are majoring in the environment, biology, and other related areas will go on a three-day for an eco camp in Cheongpyeong, Youngwol and Hwacheon, where they will conduct ecological investigations and protecting activities for natural treasure habitats as well as attend lectures by experts.
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, Eoreumchi (Hemibarbus mylodon), and then longhorn beetles 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. In this June, as part of its commitment to protect natural treasures from extinction, the refiner made a donation of 300 mil. won to research and protection organizations, including the Association of Korea Otter Conservation, the Korean Bird Conservation Association, the Korean Association for Conservation of Freshwater Fish, and the Natural Treasure Insect Research Center.
“Protecting natural treasures is a concrete action to pass on an undamaged, clean natural environment to our children and to this end, S-OIL runs the one and only natural treasure protector corps consisting of university students annually in order to cultivate the next generation of professional environmental leaders” said S-OIL officer.
