As the first Chinese company to sign the UN's Business and Biodiversity Pledge in 2016, Yili is actively working on the nine commitments in the Pledge and committed to promoting harmony between humanity and nature. Yili has made various efforts to protect biodiversity such as the "Yili Homeland Initiative".
Yili has participated in the 13th, 14th, and 15th meetings of the Conference of the Parties of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (COP13, COP14, and COP15).
Yili was invited to attend the second part of the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 15) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). And Yili is the only dairy company selected for the New Deal for People and Nature - Case Book on Business Actions in Biodiversity in China (Summary Edition), which was jointly compiled by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment of the PRC and WWF, to share our practices of Yili Homeland Initiative. Yili's biodiversity actions were quoted in China's Progress Report on the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2019), representing the outstanding achievement in China.
Since 2016, Yili has collaborated with WWF to provide financial support for the Northeast Wetland Conservation Project. In 2022, within the conservation areas, a total of 18 national protected bird species from 8 orders and 12 families were identified and recorded. To date, a total of 4,050 acres of wetlands have been protected.
From 2021 to 2025, Yili, in partnership with the China Green Foundation, carried out a five-year series of public welfare activities under the "Yili Homeland Initiative – Save Endangered Asian Elephants" program. Through specific measures such as habitat restoration, rescue of wild elephants, construction of fences to reduce human elephant conflict, and public nature and science education, Yili helped protect Asian elephants and their homes. Over the five years, the project established a 430 mu "elephant canteen". By planting approximately 50,000 trees and creating six mineral licks, it provided more food for wild Asian elephants. Monitoring data showed that Asian elephants visited the "elephant canteen" more frequently and stayed longer, which helped alleviate human elephant conflicts in the local area.
In 2025, Yili continued its collaboration with WWF and the China Green Foundation to launch environmental protection projects "China Organic Grass-Planting Festival" and the "Haloxylon Trees Conservation Plan" aimed at combating land desertification. Since being among the first to join the "Trillion Trees Leadership Initiative " China Action in 2023, Yili has cumulatively planted 300,000 saxaul trees in desertified areas such as Alxa and Zhangye. Upon maturity, these trees are expected to hold sand in place across 2.46 million square meters of land, contributing to local ecosystem restoration.
Improved 55,000 mu of degraded grasslands in Arukorqin Banner
Yili established a Haloxylon conservation area in Alxa League, Inner Mongolia
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