Investing in Nature is a USD 50 million partnerships funded by HSBC, working with Botanic Gardens Conservation International, Earthwatch and the World Wildlife Fund. Investing in Nature will protect 20,000 plant species from extinction, breathe life into three of the world's major rivers, train scientists and send 2,000 HSBC employees on conservation projects worldwide over a five year period.

Two employees from HSBC in Bangladesh have been selected for Fellowships in 2003 and they will become personally involved in scientific field research. In 2002 there were 3 Bangladeshi employees who went on trips to research dolphins in Spain, frogs in Australia and the Mammoth caves in USA.

Zinia Amreen, Customer services Officer, Personal financial services has been offered the HSBC Employee Environmental Fellowship for a project in the United Kingdom on Mammal Monitoring at Wytham Woods, Oxfordshire, in July 2003. The volunteers will collect valuable data on changes in the distribution and population of various woodland mammals as part of a national wildlife-monitoring programme.

Asaduzzaman Khan, Assistant Officer, Personal Financial Services has been selected top participate in research on Songbirds and their migration to Africa, at Mwea National Reserve, Kenya in December 2003. The volunteers will monitor birds at the start and of their migration to help manage and international chain of reserve. The aim is to understand environmental changes that may be derived from the birds’ life cycle in several ecology zones.