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Australia
Liquefied Natural Gas Plant-Gorgon Project, Barrow Island
ExxonMobil and its co-venturers have committed to providing $45 million to address potential impacts on bio-diversity, supplementing our 2003 commitment of $30 million for additional conservation benefits to the state. This includes supporting increased protection of turtle populations in areas away from Barrow Island and ongoing responsibility for removing non-indigenous species if introduced following commencement of the project.

Brazil
Mamirauá and Amanã
Sustainable Development Reserves, Central Amazon Region
ExxonMobil has been supporting the Esso-Mamirauá Environmental Education Program to promote environmental awareness. The program supports 20 rural schools located inside the Mamirauá Reserve, provides materials on environ-mental education and natural resources management, and develops environmental ambassadors to share with others information on protecting the environment.

Cameroon
Pipeline Right-of-Way Soil Erosion Control
Our joint venture in Cameroon has launched a three-year revegetation and erosion control campaign, which is being implemented by a local contractor, using natural fertilizer and indigenous grasses. We are restoring areas that remained bare three years after our initial reclamation efforts along the pipe-line right-of-way due to the harsh climate, steep slopes, and poor soil conditions.

Canada
Sable Offshore Energy Project, Nova Scotia
ExxonMobil developed a code of practice to provide operational guidance for mitigating impacts to the Gully—a submarine canyon recognized as an area of extremely high biological productivity and designated as a Marine Protected Area by the Canadian government. This code addresses, among other issues, vessel routing and aircraft flights near the Gully as well as waste management.

Germany
Saxonia, Schleswig-Holstein, and Hamburg
ExxonMobil has been supporting reforestation projects since the 1990s to address concerns about acid rain as well as a variety of other environmental issues, including the importance of trees for the sequestration of carbon dioxide. We have planted more than 800,000 trees over 300 hectares of sparsely wooded areas through 2007.

Equatorial Guinea
Bioko Island, Gulf of Guinea
ExxonMobil has been supporting the Bioko Biodiversity Protection Program to protect wildlife, including endangered primates and sea turtles. As a result, we are building awareness and expertise among the local academic, government, and civil communities on the importance of biodiversity. We also contributed to generating scientific understanding necessary for policy makers to reach the decision to institute a new law that bans hunting of endangered primates on the island.

Indonesia
South Lhoksukon Field, Aceh Province
ExxonMobil has been implementing a revegetation project for a site approaching its end of production phase, covering an area of 20 hectares. We are planting about 16,500 trees to re-establish a sustainable native plant community similar to its original environmental condition and to improve wildlife habitat.

Russia
Chayvo Production Facility, Sakhalin Island
ExxonMobil has been helping to preserve and protect Steller’s Sea Eagles by designing our facilities so that they avoid existing nest sites. We created a 700-meter buffer zone around each nest located near our operations, which is kept clear of people and machinery during the sensitive nesting season.

United States
St. Mary’s Island, Houston, Texas
ExxonMobil successfully restored St. Mary’s Island, providing almost 5 hectares of nesting habitat for coastal shorebirds, foraging habitat for upland and wading birds, marine edge habitat for marine fish, and resting areas for migrating species. The site has been certified since 2003 by the Wildlife Habitat Council.