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Enhance biodiversity with your idea - Nature will be the biggest winner!

The Quarry Life Award is a scientific and education competition, takes place every three years and runs simultaneously at national and international levels. Its aim is to raise the awareness of the ecological value of extraction sites and sharing new best practices.  

Currently, biodiversity projects are carried out in our quarries around the world.

We will award international prizes up to € 30,000 in 2022.

71 Quarries
19 Countries
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Latest news from Quarry Life Award

News overview
16 Feb 2022

International Jury announced

For the fifth edition of the Quarry Life Award, five International Jury members have been nominated to assess the projects for International Awards. They will work simultaneously with the national juries, but focusing on different evaluation criteria.

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02 Feb 2022

Blogs are open

The participants will update you with their blogs about the research conducted in our quarries.

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16 Dec 2021

It has been decided!

Projects participating in the competition will be published soon. The 5th edition of the Quarry Life Award enters into the next phase with more exciting things ahead!

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Project updates

APPLICATION OF SOIL BIOENGINEERING TECHNIQUES FOR SLOPE STABILIZATION AND EROSION CONTROLTanzania

LIVE GULLIES

Live gullies are created by planting tree cuttings across the specific gully created as a result of soil erosion by the forces of storm run off.

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18May
Protection of avifauna and amphibians by improving their natural habitat in the Ruda Quarry areaPoland

Wysianie łąki kwietnej

Mając na uwadze cel projektu – zwiększenie bioróżnorodności i poprawę warunków bytowania przedstawicieli fauny, utworzyliśmy na terenie KSM Ruda łąkę kwietną. Zaczęliśmy od wytyczenia terenu o powierzchni około 100m2. Następnie skopaliśmy teren wokół, by łatwiej było go odnaleźć gdy teren pokryje łąka. Pozostały teren został starannie wygrabiony i oczyszczony z kamieni i korzeni.

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18May
Biodiversity storiesSpain

Do you remember our project about biodiversity and literature?

A creative project that offers a tool for environmental communication and dissemination through photography and literature to publicize the biodiversity of the ecosystem where the Arrigorriaga exploitation is framed.

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18May
CUORE: Curare (caring) Osservare (observing) Respirare (breathing) Emozionare (thrill)Italy

AT WORK

11.05.2022

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18May
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About the Quarry Life Award

The Quarry Life Award is a scientific and education contest proposed by HeidelbergCement and its subsidiaries. The contest aims at raising the awareness of the biodiversity value of quarrying sites and sharing new best practices with the scientific community, NGOs, authorities and HeidelbergCement‘s operating units. The Quarry Life Award aims at increasing the scientific understanding of the interaction between nature and quarries as well as contributing to global nature conservation goals in raising the awareness of the importance of biodiversity and bringing people closer to nature.

The contest is conducted every three years. However, the Covid-19 pandemic caused us to reschedule the launch of the 5th edition to May 2021.

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