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 Aug 2022
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.
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.
These trees will have my name on them so that, whoever comes later should learn the importance of having a tree with your name as a memory. Today if you visit Wazo hill Quarry, you get inspired by the Great artificial forest with it's trees having names of those who planted them. By doing this, it is easy for the future generations to recognize the importance and inspiration in it
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One of the main goals of the project "Protection of avifauna and amphibians by improving habitat conditions in the Ruda mine" is education. This time we decided to conduct workshops that took place both in the field and in the lecture hall. On August 7th, 2022, we continued our educational activities on nature protection. Our target group was 20 people and there were children and adults.
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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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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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