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A recent BBOP newsletter and Kumtor Gold’s development of its Biodiversity Management Strategy underlined this: many (perhaps not all) roads lead to Rome and positive conservation outcomes. Does Kumtor's approach to support snow leopard and other conservation efforts in Central Asia add value? Will it's collaboration with NGOs such as FFI, the Sarychat Ertash Nature Reserve  (Zapovednik) and others work?

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Prizma publishes Winter 2012 Newsletter (PDF, 501 KB). Articles: Biodiversity Management Strategy & Plan for Kumtor Gold Mine; Sustainability Reporting for Lucara Diamond Corp.; Training Community Relations Officers from Mongolia, Turkey and Kyrgyzstan; and Gold Reserve Updates about ICSID Arbitration.

It’s that time of year again. As before, I have listed my Top 10 blogs below. Similar to last year, I blogged about 40 articles. Also similar to last year, my blog attracted over 17,000 page views in 2012. Top entries relate to IFC Performance Standards/Equator Principles, GRI and Sustainability Reporting, and the mining sector.

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Developing and maintaining a social license has become a key success factor for extractive companies. The performance of Community Relations or Liaison Officers (CROs or CLOs) plays a critical role in this process as we heard during a recent training event in Central Asia. How do you boost the performance of your CRO teams? (more...)

Gold Reserve provides an update about its Request for Arbitration under the Additional Facility Rules of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) filed in Nov 2009 and  seeking compensation totaling US $2.1 billion. (more...)

Prizma has been retained to assist Lucara Diamond Corp. to generate its inaugural sustainability report. The producing asset of Lucara is the Karowe diamond mine. It is located in the Boteti Sub-District in Botswana. This mine is an open-pit, hard rock mine with a mine life of 15+ years. -Lucara’s 2012 Sustainability Report was web-posted in early April 2013 and can be accessed here.

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Prizma was invited by Kumtor in the Kyrgyz Republic to assist with the development of its Biodiversity Management Strategy and Plan (BMSP). This included a stakeholder focus group workshop in Oct 2012 in Kyrgyzstan and brokering an MOU with Fauna & Flora International (see press release).

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Prizma was selected to provide a training course to the Community Relations Officers (CRO) and selected other staff from the Sustainability, Environment, Media and Government Relations Departments at Centerra Gold’s Kumtor gold mine in the Kyrgyz Republic. They will be joined by others involved in community relations issues at Centerra Gold’s Boroo operation in Mongolia and an exploration property in Turkey. What topics would you cover? 

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At a recent workshop facilitated by Prizma, stakeholders welcomed Kumtor Gold’s efforts to pursue the development of a biodiversity management strategy and related collaboration with stakeholders. Kumtor is the first mining company in the Kyrgyz Republic to do so. Will this address the chasm between perception and reality? (more...)

Prizma’s independent review of the Kyrgyz Parliamentary Commission Report about Centerra Gold’s Kumtor Mine was published. It focused on seven key environmental issues raised in the Commission's report: (1) Tailings Management Facility and Petrov Lake, (2) ecology and biodiversity, (3) glaciers and water consumption, (4) groundwater and permafrost, (5) environmental management, (6) waste management, and (7) data reliability and transparency. Subsequently, ERM also published its review. (more...)