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.
16 Feb 2022
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.
02 Feb 2022
The participants will update you with their blogs about the research conducted in our quarries.
16 Dec 2021
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!
Bearing in mind the goal of the project - to increase biodiversity and improve the living conditions of fauna representatives, we created a flower meadow in KSM Ruda. We started with marking out an area of approximately 100 m2. Then we dug the area around to make it easier to find it when the area is covered with plants and flowers. The rest of the area was carefully raked and cleared of stones and roots.
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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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