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.
The 5th edition of our contest will start in 2020. More information will be published in due time on this website.
23 Apr 2019
The new brochure introduces the international and national winners.
25 Jan 2019
On December 5, 2018, the International QLA Ceremony took place in Brussels. After introducing to you this edition's international winners, we now want to share a short mood video with you: the cameraman certainly did a great job in capturing the evening's magic.
22 Jan 2019
A group of Turkish students from Izmir wanted to enhance biodiversity in the nearby quarry. To realize this mission, they showed great effort and exemplary team spirit. The students used innovative methods such as vertical planting to enrich the quarry with local medicinal plants.
The types of sand that we found on the site were top soil, yellow quartz sand, white sand (silica sand). They may have broken away from their source rocks millions or even hundreds of millions of years ago and have perhaps seen several lithification and weathering cycles
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Here are some species that we found on the site, some are detritivore, predator, scavengers, insect predators, phythophagous, and also an ant.
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Here are some species that we found on the site, some are detritivore, predator, scavengers, insect predators, phythophagous, and also an ant.
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Here are some species that we found on the site, some are detritivore, predator, scavengers, insect predators, phythophagous, and also an ant.
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