HeidelbergCement invites researchers, students and citizens to submit biodiversity projects in its quarries around the world.
The aim of this scientific and educational contest is to raise awareness of the organic value of mining sites and share new best practices with the scientific community, NGOs, authorities and our operating units.
Over 110 projects worldwide have been selected to compete in the 4th edition 2018 and win up to 30.000 Euro.
19 Feb 2018
Over the next couple of weeks, all projects competing in the fourth edition of the Quarry Life Award will be introduced individually on the QLA social media channels (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram).
17 Jan 2018
The research phase of the fourth QLA edition has started with nature enthusiasts undertaking over 110 projects at quarries across 25 participating countries. Many participants visited "their" quarry for the first time and will update you with their blogs about the research.
11 Dec 2017
Let's celebrate! On the occasion of the sixth year anniversary, HeidelbergCement and BirdLife International have published a brochure highlighting the successes of their partnership.
On April 24th, we were collecting a sample of soil Arthropods in the rehabilitation site of Gaskell Sands Quarry.
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Gaskell Sand Quarry has a potential of sand minerals, and the quality of its can and could be potentially measured by using a soil arthropods as a bio indicators. Soil arthropods has a great impact in the environmental changing and abiotic factors such us a pollutant, chemical, climate change, diversity of plant species, soil composition, and also water source. Gaskell sand quarry has three kind of soil compounds which is the white sands of silica, the yellow sands, and the top soil. Based on...
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A hard-seeded species in the legume family Fabaceae, Jacksonia furcellata is a common species of Banksia woodlands and occurs at the Gaskell Quarry.
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X-ray analysis reveals what seed is viable (intact embryo) and what is damaged or infertile
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