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.
Jednym z podstawowych celów projektu „Ochrona awifauny i płazów poprzez poprawę warunków siedliskowych na terenach kopalni Ruda” jest edukacja. Tym razem postanowiliśmy przeprowadzić warsztaty, które odbyły się zarówno w terenie jak i w sali wykładowej. W dniu 7 sierpnia 2022 r. kontynuowaliśmy działania edukacyjne o ochronie przyrody. Nasza grupa docelowa liczyła 20 osób i były w niej dzieci i dorośli.
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It was on 6th Aug 2022 at Wazo Hill Quarry site We had a seminar with Community leaders On environmental Conservation in their local areas It was a great workshop, thanks to Mr. Magoda The Environmental manager at #twigacement For facilitating the event. Special thanks to my brother Mr.Henry kazola of #sharonringofoundation Thanks to everyone who made this event a special even for the next 1000 years Community leaders have a direct influencial role in promoting environmental Conservation in...
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On March 2022 it was when the team has officially started to design the community biodiversity museum settings and the content for the data to be included and the focus peremeters that will benefit the community around Wazo Hill Quarry Site. Depends on the open opportunity by the project through Quarry Life Award 5th Edition can be used by the industry as community friendship project in the future to ensure that the local community use facility to conduct Cultural Tourism Enterprise (CTE) under...
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The project for community biodiversity museum has received community members around Wazo Hill Quarry site the community around the quarry has to understand how to utilize the resources for the future use in a sustainable way and this project is supporting this vision for the aim of ensuring community understand how to use the resource and become core part in protecting nature and environment at larger.
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