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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.

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19 Countries
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Latest news from Quarry Life Award

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15 Aug 2022

ONE MONTH TO GO!

The countdown is on! The deadline for submitting the Final Report is only one month away. The deadline for uploading the Final Report is 15th September 2022.

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15 Aug 2022

Additional Member of the International Jury

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Ani Mardiastuti has joined the International Jury of the fifth edition of the 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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Project updates

Nachhaltiger Amphibienschutz durch Nutzung natürlicher ProzesseGermany

Die Wechselkröte erobert den Schwemmfächer

Das Amphibienmonitoring erbrachte den Nachweis, dass die Metamorphose der ersten Wechselkröten in den Rinnen und Tümpeln erfolgreich abgeschlossen wurde.

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15Aug
Quarry networkingSpain

August 11th: final environmental education workshop.

Last week we were finally able to carry out the environmental education activity we had prepared as part of the project. The activity consisted of a series of games about the environment. To finish, the children were organized into groups and we built four insect hotels.

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15Aug
Protection of avifauna and amphibians by improving their natural habitat in the Ruda Quarry areaPoland

Murarka ogrodowa

Murarka ogrodowa (Osmia rufa) to jeden z gatunków pszczół samotnic, występujących na terenie całej Polski. W przeciwieństwie do pszczoły miodnej nie dają miodu, ale pełnią ważną rolę w przyrodzie – zapylają kwiaty, z których później mamy owoce i warzywa.

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14Aug
Werkzeugkasten „Zeitreise Steinbruch“Germany

Habitat-Hopping (Teil 2)

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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14Aug
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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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