Covia is pleased to announce that it has been recognized as one of the finalists for the 2025 Tandem Global Award for its Reptiles and Amphibians Project. Tandem's program encourages organizations to focus on projects that create, enhance, manage, or restore habitats benefiting reptiles and amphibians. Projects may also focus on using reptiles and amphibians and their habitats for conservation education.

For over six years, Covia's Nepheline Syenite Operation (NSO) in Ontario, Canada, has collaborated with the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry and the Ministry of Environment, Conservation and Parks to safeguard local turtle populations, including threatened species inhabiting nearby wetlands. During the annual turtle nesting season, Covia team members actively seek turtles and nesting sites. The eggs are collected and incubated at NSO site, where they are monitored and cared for until they hatch and can be released into the wild. Last year, the team released 42 painted and snapping turtle hatchlings back into the environment and a total of 912 hatchings have been released over the last six years. Additionally, Covia recently partnered with the Ontario Turtle Conservation Centre to support the expansion of its efforts to treat and rehabilitate injured turtles, which are then released. This is another way the company is dedicated to protecting and conserving Ontario’s native turtles and their habitats.

Congratulations to all the finalists of the 2025 Tandem Global Awards! Your work is truly inspiring, and Covia looks forward to learning from each of you at the upcoming Tandem Global Conference in June.

Learn more information on Covia's commitment to biodiversity here.

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At Covia, we are committed to being more than just a leading provider of high-performance mineral and material solutions – we believe that our company can make a positive difference in the world. This belief is what drives our environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategy, which is influenced by both our journey as an organization and the events in the world around us.

Our commitment to operating as a responsible corporate citizen has been embedded into every aspect of our business for decades and serves as the foundation for Covia’s ESG initiatives. From our operations to our Team Members and the communities in which we live and work, we continue to define WHAT WE’RE MADE OF as more than the materials we produce, but the impact we can make in every interaction.

In 2021, we enhanced our approach toward accelerating ESG performance by developing our formal GOALS THAT INSPIRE: ESG 2030. These 10 goals, broken into our three core areas - Environmental Stewardship, Positive Social Impact and Responsible Governance & Ethics - were developed by Covia Team members across the company and are designed to drive tangible and measurable progress in areas where we can make the most impact.

We have the commitment and strategy in place to drive meaningful progress and we are pledging to make a positive differences for our people, our planet and our communities.

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