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.
10 Jun 2022
The national and international jury members visit our quarrying sites and learn more about the QLA projects from the participants.
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.
Po dłuższej przerwie chcielibyśmy nadrobić nasze zaległości i przedstawić postępy w prowadzonym projekcie. Praca nasza opierała się głównie na obmyślaniu planu działania oraz inwentaryzacji przyrodniczej. Na naszej liście znalazło się kilka ciekawych gatunków roślin, a także zwierząt.
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For thousands of years, birds have delighted people with their soaring flights. We also decided to capture the extraordinary beauty of the busiest birds in our project. These unusual species are: barn swallows, house martins, and sand martins. Birds play an extremely important role as natural enemies of pests.
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On our first site visit we encountered five of the six UK reptile species.
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We begin collecting information about the breeding environment of the sand lizard, and encounter some of the reptiles making their home at Masters Quarry receptor site.
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