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Conservation & Sustainability Award Timeline
International and national recognition demonstrate Alcoa’s successful management of land:
United Nations Association of Australia World Environment Day Award for best specific environmental initiative for the Point Henry ‘Moolapio’ project (2008)
- Alcoa was named one of the world’s most sustainable corporations at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland (2007)
- Alcoa’s WA bauxite mining operations received a Golden Gecko award which recognised environmental excellence in the closure, remediation and rehabilitation of the company’s first bauxite mine at Jarrahdale, comprising 4090 hectares (2007)
- Portland Aluminium received a Victorian Coastal Award for Excellence from the Victorian Coastal Council for species protection for the work undertaken with the gannet colony (2004)
- Alcoa’s leadership in mine rehabilitation in WA won an international award from the Society for Ecological Restoration International (2003)
- Alcoa’s 20 year partnership with Greening Australia was recognised by a Prime Minister’s Award for Community Business Partnerships (2003)
- Alcoa’s efforts in mine rehabilitation and restoring the botanical diversity of the jarrah forest was recognised with a WA Government Golden Gecko Award (2002)
- Portland Aluminium’s Smelter in the Park won a prestigious Banksia Award (1993)
- Portland Aluminium’s Smelter in the Park won two awards from the Wildlife Habitat Enhancement Council – this was the first time awards from the Council had gone to any organisation outside of the USA (1992)
- Alcoa was the first mining company in the world to be recognised by the United Nations Environmental Program by inclusion in its Global 500 Roll of Honour for its mine rehabilitation in WA (1990)
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