The companies Baleària and OHL have joined the Spanish Business and Biodiversity Initiative, a project of which 21 Spanish companies are already part. This initiative seeks to promote economic development compatible with the conservation of biodiversity. The adhesion of these two companies has been carried out through the signing of the Pact for Biodiversity, a document that incorporates the principles of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, and through which the company’s commitment is visualized.
 
The company Baleària, which develops its operations at sea, collaborates and implements environmental protection activities and works on various R+D+i projects, whose objective is to reduce polluting emissions from its ships into the atmosphere. Its objectives are based on its commitment to the environment, under the principle that “the world in which we live is not an inheritance from our parents, but a loan from our children”.
 
Likewise, this company makes sightings of cetaceans and turtles, in addition to contributing with its commitment to the custody of the coastal area of Las Rotas, in Dénia, with the cleaning of an area of this beach, with the aim of raising awareness of the importance of keeping these spaces clean.
 
For its part, the construction company OHL shows its commitment to biodiversity in its sustainability policy, which reads: “to reduce the impact on ecosystems through the planning and development of conservation and ecological restoration practices and with the ultimate aim of increasing, or failing that, minimizing the net loss of ecosystem services and biodiversity.”
 
In its 2014 sustainability report, they point out that “the low-carbon economy, the water footprint and the conservation of ecosystems are the main areas of action of the OHL Group’s 2011-2015 Environment and Energy Master Plan”. Some cases of conservation and restoration that they have carried out are the ecosystem rehabilitation of Lake Machado in California, exploitation, conservation and maintenance of several dams in Madrid or the repair of damage in the basins of the Ésera and Garona rivers.