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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.

71 Quarries
19 Countries
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Latest news from Quarry Life Award

News overview
16 Feb 2022

International Jury announced

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.

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02 Feb 2022

Blogs are open

The participants will update you with their blogs about the research conducted in our quarries.

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16 Dec 2021

It has been decided!

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!

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Project updates

In search of the off-key note. Ecoacoustics for the management of Castenedolo’s Plain ForestItaly

BioAcustiamo & Bioblitz of the Castenedolo Hill 2022

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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14May
Protection of avifauna and amphibians by improving their natural habitat in the Ruda Quarry areaPoland

World Migratory Bird Day (WMBD)

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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14May
Protection of avifauna and amphibians by improving their natural habitat in the Ruda Quarry areaPoland

Światowy Dzień Ptaków Wędrownych (WMBD)

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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14May
Protection of avifauna and amphibians by improving their natural habitat in the Ruda Quarry areaPoland

The appearance of amphibians, reptiles and more ...

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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13May
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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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