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United Kingdom
Quarry Life Award 2012
Off Walton Lane, Staffs DE13 8EJ Barton-under-Needwood

Improving the biodiversity of an interconnected gravel pit lake system, Barton-under-Needwood Quarry, Staffordshire, UK: initial recommendations based on site surveys

Lakes and wetlands are biodiversity hotspots attracting a wide range of wading and migrating birds, amphibians, riparian mammals and insects with aquatic larval stages.

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Quarry Life Award 2012
Millicent Amekugbe team
Quarry Life Award 2014
Oterkpalu - Kpong Rd, Eastern District

Implications of Edge Effects as a Tool in Assisting Ecological Succession

This project seeks to promote edge species which will be used to assess impact on species succession and eventually serve as a means of evaluating and monitoring the success of reclamation.

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Quarry Life Award 2014
Germany
Quarry Life Award 2012
L594 (old B3 from Nußloch to Wiesloch), 69226 Nußloch

Identification, Maintenance and Protection of Ecologically Valuable Stone Quarry Biotopes within the Framework of a Hands-On Project Training

Our project consists of 3 phases in the first year. In the first phase, in spring (April), we envisage two working visits at the quarry with the pupils,

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Quarry Life Award 2012
Pomiar przeźroczystości wody za pomocą krążka Secchiego (Nowogród Bobrzański)
Poland
Quarry Life Award 2014
Górażdże village

Hydrological - hydrochemical conditions of biodiversity and reclamation of opencast mines

The conducted earlier studies on vegetation of lime opencast mines clearly indicated that the direction of spontaneous colonization of excavation pits by plants is mainly determined by the type of

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Quarry Life Award 2014
Germany
Quarry Life Award 2012
Zementwerk 1/1, 69601 Schelklingen, Baden-Wurttemberg

Herbal Tea from the Quarry

Step 1: Preparing pupils for collecting the herbs (habitats, quarry, botany, use of classification books, protecting resources, sustainable use). Step 2: Collection of herbs from March to June.

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Quarry Life Award 2012
Quarry Life Award 2012
Cudgen, Northern, New South Wales

Habitat creation for biodiversity promotion in the ecological restoration of a quarry / Creación de hábitats para la promoción de la biodiversidad en la restauración ecológica de una cantera

The aim of this project is to encourage diversity of habitats and biodiversity at the species level in a granite quarry through the creation of specific habitats which are underrepresented in the a

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Quarry Life Award 2012
United Kingdom
Quarry Life Award 2012
Crossways, Dorchester, Dorset

Habitat creation following quarrying at Warmwell: evaluating the contribution made by different habitats to biodiversity gain and to human well-being

Habitats created on quarried land provide an important new source of support for sustainable development.

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Quarry Life Award 2012
Quarry Life Award 2012
Cudgen, Northern, New South Wales

Habitat creation and management in granite mediterranean quarries

A conceptual approach to an integrated environmental management plan This looks like an excessive goal, but it relies on a quite simple conceptual framework:, just three components:

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Quarry Life Award 2012
Tanzania
Quarry Life Award 2014

Ground beetles (Carabidae) species diversity and abundance as indicators of habitat quality in rehabilitated sites of Wazo Hill Quarry

A bioindicator is a species or a group of species that reflects the abiotic or biotic state of the environment, represents the impact of environmental change on a habitat, community or ecosystems,

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Quarry Life Award 2014