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Italy
Quarry Life Award 2021
Viale della Rimembranza, 25014 Castenedolo

BiodiVEnture: a playful and didactic experience to know and approach biodiversity

The project consists in the creation of an interactive-educational nature trail inside the woods of Santa Giustina (BS). In this place it will be created a game in a "treasure hunt" style.

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Quarry Life Award 2021
Italy
Quarry Life Award 2021
Viale della Rimembranza, 25014 Castenedolo

CUORE: Curare (caring) Osservare (observing) Respirare (breathing) Emozionare (impressing)

The former Santa Giustina quarry will become a nature classroom,

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Quarry Life Award 2021
Italy
Quarry Life Award 2021
Viale della Rimembranza, 25014 Castenedolo

Like a stepping stone

The research project aims to the ecological characterization of the area of the former Italcementi Santa Giustina quarry in Castenedolo (BS).

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Quarry Life Award 2021
Italy
Quarry Life Award 2021
Viale della Rimembranza, 25014 Castenedolo

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

Ecoacoustics is an interdisciplinary science, derived from bioacoustics and ecology, very close to soundscape ecology.

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Quarry Life Award 2021
Italy
Quarry Life Award 2018

Biodiversity quarry: 501 species for Colle Pedrino!

The project is designed to describe the biodiversity observed within the quarry of Colle Pedrino (Palazzago and Caprino Bergamasco BG),

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Quarry Life Award 2018
Italy
Quarry Life Award 2018

Sports, walks, photos and technology to discover the biodiversity of Monte Giglio

The idea is developed on the bike path, about 1.4 km, built around the southern, sub-west boundary of the Monte Giglio quarry. The track, made by Italcementi with i-Drain material,

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Quarry Life Award 2018
Italy
Quarry Life Award 2018

From time to time, from quarry to nature

In calcareous quarries, quarrying can occur in different spatio-temporal phases during a long time span (>10-15 years). The restoration performed during subsequent times of the quarry exploitation,

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Quarry Life Award 2018
Italy
Quarry Life Award 2018

Rehabilitation of karst quarries to increase biodiversity and biopermeability of the area

Project objectives related to the San Giuseppe quarry (Trieste, Italy): -preservation of the rock area of the lower quarry, spontaneously recolonized by plant and animal species,

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Quarry Life Award 2018
Italy
Quarry Life Award 2018

“BeeVillage: Recognize and valorize the biodiversity through the presence of the bees

Our goal is to guide the local and surrounding communities toward the rediscovery of the quarry as a unique natural environment.

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Quarry Life Award 2018