Quarry Life Award è un concorso che mira a sensibilizzare sul valore della biodiversità nelle cave e a condividere nuove best practices.
HeidelbergCement ti invita a presentare una proposta per realizzare progetti di biodiversità nei suoi siti estrattivi presenti in tutto il mondo entro il 18 novembre 2021.
I premi, fino a un massimo di € 30.000 euro, verranno assegnati nel 2022.
Inizio 5° edizione: Maggio 2021
15 Ago 2022
The countdown is on! The deadline for submitting the Final Report is only one month away. The deadline for uploading the Final Report is 15th September 2022.
15 Ago 2022
We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Ani Mardiastuti has joined the International Jury of the fifth edition of the Quarry Life Award.
10 Ago 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.
By comparing the available knowledge on sedentary and nesting avifauna of Castenedolo’s Wood (45 species) with that of Bosco Fontana State Reserve (52 species), differences are evident. The ancient lowland forest of Bosco Fontana is surrounded by large water basins and canals where distinctly marshy species, such as little bittern (Ixobrychus minutus), coot (Fulica atra) and greenish marsh warbler (Acrocephalus palustris), stop and reproduce. There are also differences between birds related to...
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Amount of direct observations, reports from collaborators (including friends of “La Collina dei Castagni” Association) and results of bioacoustic analyzes, allow us to define first faunal situation comparisons between two Lombard plain forests subject of our Project. There were 24 species of terrestrial mammals listed in the Management Plan of Bosco Fontana State Reserve, which -we recall- is a very important and ancient wooded area, testimony of woods once widespread in our plain. On the other...
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Cicada orni and Tettigonia viridissima by day, crickets in the evening. The faunal soundscape still finds invertebrates as the main singers in these torrid summer days. Only in the morning blackbirds, blackcaps, crows. And then some orioles and occasionally great tits, swallows and sparrows. We arrived at the end of field recording, with the withdrawal from the four identified stations of audio-ultrasonic microphones Ultramic 384 by Dodotronic. Friends of the "La Collina dei Castagni"...
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