Biodiversity

Monitoring and implementation of initiatives aimed at preserving biodiversity are significant aspects of the environmental protection activities of the Company. Measures to manage the impact on biological resources are voluntarily taken, as the production assets of Uralchem do not operate in specially protected natural areas or adjacent areas.

As part of our ESG Strategy, Uralchem aims to assess biodiversity within the impact zones of four industrial sites by 2025: the Azot, VMF, KCKK, and PMF branches. In 2023, we selected companies to conduct these assessments. Based on their findings, we plan to prepare a Biodiversity Conservation Programme.

To protect and preserve biodiversity in the reporting year, the Company’s main areas of activity were compensatory measures for stocking water bodies, aimed at releasing young sturgeon into the reservoirs, as well as participation in public events in the regions of operation to green the territories. As the result, the following measures were implemented:

• sterlet fry were released into the Vyatka River;
• sterlet fry were released into the Kama Reservoir;
• the PMF Branch sponsored the purchase of the Siberian cedar to reforest a portion of the Chernyaevsky Forest.