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Extending tie with Womeng to support women and girls   This International Women’s Day, De Beers Group is proud to announce it has extended its partnership with WomEng for a further three years, expanding the reach to cover all four of the countries where De Beers discovers diamonds and placing a greater focus on supporting women and girls to pursue careers in sustainability-related fields.   The partnership will play an important role as De Beers strives to achieve its goal to engage 10,000 girls and women in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) by 2030, as part of its wider Building Forever sustainability goals.   WomEng is a global, multi-award-winning social enterprise which helps engage and develop girls and women for the engineering and technology industries. The original three-year partnership focused on developing leadership, innovation, well-being and employability skills for women and girls in Botswana, Namibia and South Africa.   Despite ...

Reaffirms Long Term Commitment   to the Natural World Jewellery Market: Forevermark, the diamond brand from the De Beers Group, that has made a long-term commitment to take care of the natural environment and focus on ‘Building Forever’, is on track to achieve the 12 sustainability goals in the coming decade. These goals include leading ethical practices across industry, partnering for thriving communities, protecting the natural world and accelerating equal opportunity. On World Environment Day, here are some of the initiatives undertaken by the brand that puts responsible sourcing at the very heart of their business, 1: The brand has set aside land for the conservation of white rhinos and has also partnered with the Peace Parks Foundation to move 200 elephants across 1,000 miles to Mozambique for its untouched landscape and space. 2: It recycles 83% of the water used for diamond mining by De Beers Group and other natural diamond companies & 3: It helped found the Motswe...

De beers group progresses Conservation initiative in Africa De Beers Group announced that the second translocation of elephants from its Venetia Limpopo Nature Reserve (VLNR) in South Africa to Zinave National Park in Mozambique has taken place. The first herds of elephants were corralled at the VLNR on 25 June, before making their journey by road some 1,700km where they were released at Zinave on 27 June. The final herds arrived at Zinave today, bringing the total number of elephants moved in 2019 to 53. The translocation is part of a major conservation effort – known as ‘Moving Giants’ – that aims to move some 200 elephants over three years in a bid to help secure the future of the VLNR, which at the beginning of last year was under threat due to too many elephants impacting the broader ecosystem, and to help repopulate Mozambique’s elephant population. During the first phase of the project, 48 elephants were trans located in July and August 2018. These elephan...