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Quarry Life Award 2012
Kaspi

Environmental Education Program for Biodiversity Conservation during the Rehabilitation Process of Limestone Quarry

We think about to use the post-closed rehabilitation process of the limestone quarry areas in Georgia (Kavtiskhevi and Dadoflistskaro) for educational program for pupils and students to demonstrate

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Quarry Life Award 2012
Quarry Life Award 2012
Zheleznodorozhnaya, Novogurovsky, Tula

Emerald Bowl

The aim of the project is construction of a recreational area for people with conservation and restoration of disturbed biodiversity. The aim presupposes the fulfillment of the following tasks:

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Quarry Life Award 2012
Tweed Sands Quarry cormorants
Australia
Quarry Life Award 2014
Cudgen, Northern, New South Wales

Effect of artificial wetland creation and vegetation on bird species at Tweed Sands Lake

Wetland habitats are in decline globally. The loss and fragmentation of wetlands can have detrimental impacts on a variety of fauna, including bird populations.

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Quarry Life Award 2014
Quarry Life Award 2014

Ecological path “Olshanitsky quarry” - Экологическая тропа «Ольшаницкий карьер»

Ecological path is so-called tourist route, which would give a possibility to hold educational activities among the students and the local population,

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Quarry Life Award 2014
Germany
Quarry Life Award 2014
Leimen and Heidelberg, Baden-Wurttemberg

Ecological networking of two quarries

The project purpose is the integration of habitats in a conurbation The former quarries Rohrbach and Leimen are very rich in species,

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Quarry Life Award 2014
Fase V (23/03/2012)
Quarry Life Award 2012
Carretera Segovia, 47080 La Cistérniga

Eco gravel pit ("Ecogravera")

This project is intended to achieve a goal that will be to integrate the gravel pit in its surrounding landscape,

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Quarry Life Award 2012
Motacilla alba Lespezi Quarry
Romania
Quarry Life Award 2012
Dâmbovita county

Discovering the birds of the Lespezi Quarry

The exploitation of a mining site could be considered by the general public as an ecological perturbation that destroys biodiversity.

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Quarry Life Award 2012
Quarry Life Award 2014

Discovering Biodiversity in the Loën Quarry

The Loën quarry is located in a very particular context. Installed at the heart of a site renowned well beyond the regional borders for its natural riches,

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Quarry Life Award 2014
Quarry Life Award 2014
Oviedo, Asturias

Development of bat populations in the quarry of La Medina during the operation and post-operational phases and study of the connectivity between the bat populations of La Medina and the Nature Reserve of Las Caldas Cave

Globally, bats are facing wide-ranging threats that are causing the decline in the populations of several species in Europe. Some of these global threats are habitat degradation,

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Quarry Life Award 2014