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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.

70 Quarries
19 Countries
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Latest news from Quarry Life Award

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10 Aug 2022

Submit your Final Report

Dear Quarry Life Award participants, With just a couple of weeks left of the research phase, it’s time to start thinking about your final report - it can be uploaded to the QLA website. The deadline for uploading your documents is 15th September 2022. The QLA team wishes you a healthy and productive summer in our quarries.

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10 Jun 2022

First jury visits underway

The national and international jury members visit our quarrying sites and learn more about the QLA projects from the participants.

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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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Project updates

Werkzeugkasten „Zeitreise Steinbruch“Germany

Habitat-Hopping

Für den 4. August haben wir uns ein straffes Programm vorgenommen: Ziel ist es, die verschiedenen Lebensräume des Steinbruchs Burglengenfeld alle mindestens einmal zu kartieren, um die Charakteristiken und einige typische Arten je Habitat herauszuarbeiten.

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10Aug
Assessment of Local community involvement in Restoration of quarry sitesTanzania

Data Collection at Tanzania Social Initiative for Development Organization(TSID)

TSID Is a non governmental Organization Which among it's top programs are 1.tree planting and 2. Public awareness programs It has three years since establishment and works in hand with Twiga Cement as a tree grower and provider for the organization' programs.

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09Aug
Protection of avifauna and amphibians by improving their natural habitat in the Ruda Quarry areaPoland

Warsztaty ekologiczne

Jednym z podstawowych celów projektu „Ochrona awifauny i płazów poprzez poprawę warunków siedliskowych na terenach kopalni Ruda” jest edukacja. Tym razem postanowiliśmy przeprowadzić warsztaty, które odbyły się zarówno w terenie jak i w sali wykładowej. W dniu 7 sierpnia 2022 r. kontynuowaliśmy działania edukacyjne o ochronie przyrody. Nasza grupa docelowa liczyła 20 osób i były w niej dzieci i dorośli.

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09Aug
Assessment of Local community involvement in Restoration of quarry sitesTanzania

Training at Wazo hill Quarry

It was on 6th Aug 2022 at Wazo Hill Quarry site We had a seminar with Community leaders On environmental Conservation in their local areas It was a great workshop, thanks to Mr. Magoda The Environmental manager at #twigacement For facilitating the event. Special thanks to my brother Mr.Henry kazola of #sharonringofoundation Thanks to everyone who made this event a special even for the next 1000 years Community leaders have a direct influencial role in promoting environmental Conservation in...

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08Aug
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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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