Biodiversity

In the course of its industrial development, PSMC continues to make efforts to protect and maintain biodiversity. In response to international concerns about biodiversity and forest conservation, PSMC have formulated the “PSMC Biodiversity Policy” to demonstrate our commitment to the conservation of the ecological environment through the monitoring and promotion of corporate sustainable governance.

Biodiversity and Non-Deforestation Commitment

PSMC is committed to maintaining biodiversity in accordance with SDG15, with ecosystem protection as the starting point, and calling on our supply chain partners to support biodiversity preservation and forest conservation to promote the well-being of mankind and the planet in response to the environmental and ecological challenges posed by climate change.

Biodiversity and Non-Deforestation Policy

• Avoid establishing or operating plants in the vicinity of areas of global biodiversity and/or of national importance
• Avoid operating related activities that could destroy protected forests and organisms
• If operational activities touch on biodiversity and ecological reserves, actions must be taken to eliminate, mitigate, offset and restore the richness and variability of biodiversity.
• According to the characteristics of the operating site and the nearby ecosystem, priority is given to measures that can help mitigate or adapt to climate change, and the introduction of biodiversity enhancement practices, as well as attention to ecological indicators monitoring and maintenance.
• Comply with international and local forest-related laws or specific regulations, and conserve forests based on the principle of zero net logging.
• Actively pursue conservation and sustainable use in response to the Convention on Biological Diversity signed by the United Nations Environment Programme
• Bringing together the upstream and downstream value chain and working with suppliers and external stakeholders to support and practice biodiversity conservation
• Actively promote the concept of biodiversity, raise public awareness of ecological conservation, and promote ecological conservation actions.

Biodiversity Conservation Initiative

PSMC of P5 Tongluo Factory is located in Tongluo Park, Hsinchu Science Park. This area is one of the important habitats for animals and plants in the green network of national ecological conservation. In particular, the leopard cat, a protected animal, has attracted the most attention. In order to maintain its commitment to maintaining biodiversity and environmental ecological balance, PSMC takes the initiative to obtain and understand the environmental and ecological monitoring content from the Hsinchu Science Park Bureau, NSTC. Among them, the Hsinchu Science Park Bureau, NSTC conducts quarterly environmental quality monitoring (terrestrial ecology) for Tongluo Park, including birds, amphibians, reptiles, mammals, butterflies, etc., and sets up 10-point infrared cameras. In 2023, the land area Ecological monitoring recorded a total of 24 ecological species of 9 orders, 15 families. A summary of the monitoring results is as follows:

• The number of bird species identified ranged from 33 to 47. Due to bird migration effects, the number in autumn and winter was slightly larger than that in spring and summer.
• The number of mammal species identified ranged from 1 to 9; of these, the Pipistrellus abramus (sometimes called the Japanese house bat) was deemed the dominant species.
• Reptiles are ectotherms and were harder to be found.
• The population of amphibians increased sharply during the rainy season, but then decreased within a short period of time.
• Depending on when nectar-providing plants bloom, there were fewer butterflies in winter and early spring, and more in summer and early autumn.

The Hsinchu Science Park Bureau has completed a detailed design for a leopard cat ecological corridor around PSMC's Fab P5 area. The corridor will be set on conservation and park land around the Tongluo park area, in the form of above-ground (both at surface and elevated) or underground passages, thus connecting the habitats located at both ends of the corridor. By making use of existing drainage channels, leopard-cat-friendly facilities such as openings, hanging nets, climbing ramps, etc. will be added. This will reduce interference in native species' ecological environment. The project is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2024.

In addition to keeping track of external environmental ecological monitoring data and cooperatively implementing biodiversity management measures. At the same time, ecological conservation lectures and mountain-cleaning activities were held. A total of 644 people participated in the mountain cleaning activities in 2023, thereby enhancing the thinking of environmental conservation and increasing the concept of biodiversity among employees at PSMC, and continuing to maintain the shared commonwealth and prosperous environment between PSMC and the surrounding ecology.