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!
Sunday 22 May, on the International Day of Biodiversity, we will carry out the first event foreseen by our Project. Everyone is invited to participate, free of charge, at the BioAcustiamo & Bioblitz of the Castenedolo Hill. An opportunity to become entomologists, herpetologists, ornithologists, botanists or bioacoustics for a day, carrying out in collaboration with expert naturalists the monitoring of the fauna and flora present in the Castenedolo Woods, with the aid of your mobile phone,...
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On World Migration Day, we want to tell you a little more about the FBI birds. The landscape around us is more and more often monotonous and hostile to animals. There are more and more glass skyscrapers in cities and birds crash against them. There is a growing tendency in the countryside to cultivate monocultures, such as maize or rape, which reduces the species diversity of animals. That is why in our project we are trying to introduce elements that will help the organisms found in Budziska.
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W Światowym Dniu Migracji chcemy opowiedzieć nieco więcej o ptakach indeksu FBI. Krajobraz wokół nas coraz częściej jest monotonny i nieprzyjazny zwierzętom. W miastach przybywa szklanych wieżowców, o które rozbijają się ptaki. Na wsiach rośnie tendencja do upraw monokultur np. kukurydzy, czy rzepaku, co zmniejsza różnorodność gatunkową zwierząt. Dlatego w naszym projekcie staramy się wprowadzać takie elementy, które pomogą organizmom występującym w Budziskach.
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To our great satisfaction, representatives of the group of vertebrates - amphibians and reptiles - arrived at the site of the project "Protection of avifauna ...".
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