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.
25 students from Primary and Secondary schools of Mtakuja and Wazo Hill got an opportunity to visit the quarry to see the birds demonstrated by the book and the trees they prefer, they learnt about UVIKIUTA activities and conducted a bird watching tour 100 trees supporting bird ecology were planted and 25 books were distributed to participating management
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Students' engagements with Wazo Hill Quarry Book: The book is designed in a way that it denotes the most recurring bird species in the quarry and contains fun learning games to stimulate students' curiosity to want to learn more
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33 students were trained about the relationship between the rehabilitating activities done in the quarry and in supporting the ecology of birds. There was a level of understanding from 45% to 98% at the end of the workshop, and most students expressed interest on wanting to visit the quarry site
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The majority of our work revolves around the parasitism of the cocklebur (Rhinanthus alectorolophus) on cane (Calamagrostis epigejos). But how do plant parasites work and where can we meet them in the Czech Republic?
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