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Indonesia
Quarry Life Award 2014
Cirebon, Jawa Barat

Bats Diversity in Disturbing Areas in Cirebon Quarry PT. Ind

Indonesia have a large limestone area in many countries such as in Java Island, Sumatra Island and other.

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Quarry Life Award 2014
Tanzania
Quarry Life Award 2014

At what extent ongoing rehabilitation efforts at Wazo Hill Quarry are offseting the lost biodiversity?

Biodiversity offsets approaches aims at achieving no net loss and preferably a net gain of biodiversity on the ground with respect to species composition, habitat structure and ecosystem functions.

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Quarry Life Award 2014
United Kingdom
Quarry Life Award 2014
Needingworth Road, Bluntisham, Huntingdon PE17 3RJ, England

Assessing the potential for upgrading ecological restoration at Needingworth and Whatley quarries to accommodate offsets from elsewhere by the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology.

The project will investigate potential 'upgrades' in ecological restoration at mineral extraction sites, with a view to these being supplied as biodiversity offsets. These '

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Quarry Life Award 2014
Quarry Life Award 2012
Kakanj, Zenica – Doboj Canton

Ants as Indicator of Biodiversity-standard methods for measuring and monitoring biodiversity

Ants (family Formicidae) are organism group, owns predispositions for use in programme analyses of biodiversity for many reasons: out of the more than 750000 Insects species descripted,

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

Amphibian colonization of the artificial water body Tweed Sands Lake

Frogs act as an important indicator of environmental health due to their vulnerability to environmental stressors such as pollutants. It has been well documented

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Quarry Life Award 2014
Czech Republic
Quarry Life Award 2012
Na Cikánce, Praha 16 Radotín

Active limestone mining and its possitive effect on biodiversity of the quarry and its surrounding

We will study heterogeneity of the environment and biodiversity which is always linked with the heterogeneity.

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Quarry Life Award 2012
Quarry Life Award 2014
Degerhamn, Öland

A modern nature trail in Degerhamn

As a part of the government's environmental objectives, the public needs to have a good understanding of nature.

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Quarry Life Award 2014
Poland
Quarry Life Award 2014
Górażdże village

A comprehensive inventory of herpetofauna of the Limestone Quarry "Górażdże", with particular emphasis on rare species, as a basis for the preparation of guidelines for the environmentally friendly rehabilitation.

> Watch Edyta Turniak's video (International Award Ceremony 2014, prague Czech Republic) > Discover Grand Prize winner's publication Areas after exploatation,

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Quarry Life Award 2014
Early summer fot. A Sala
Poland
Quarry Life Award 2012
Spalona

A comprehensive inventory of fauna and flora of the Mine “Szczytniki” and preparation guidelines for rehabilitation

Exploitation of mineral resources involves the transformation of the entire ecosystems.

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Quarry Life Award 2012