HeidelbergCement invite les chercheurs, les étudiants et les citoyens à proposer des projets liés à la biodiversité dans ses carrières à travers le monde.
L’objectif de ce challenge scientifique et éducationnel est de soulever l’attention sur la valeur organique des carrières d’exploitation et de partager les bonnes pratiques avec la communauté scientifique, les ONG, les autorités et nos équipes opérationnelles.
La 5ème édition de notre concours débutera en 2020. Plus d'informations seront publiées en temps voulu sur ce site.
23 avr 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.
2880 hours (4 months) of data were recorded. 45% of the detection were related to African Savanna Hare occurrence, 15% related to bird’s activities. Human activities occurred at a rate of 27% and 13% of the detection contain no information.
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The session raised awareness to local people about the importance of biodiversity using a poster and the initiative of the Heidelberg Cement Group to celebrate Fongba quarry biodiversity.
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The reforestation of the quarry and trees planting in the school and surroundings was carried out by the project team and the teachers of the school "La Différence". A total of 100 plants (Ceiba pentandra and Afzelia africana) were planted. The two species chosen are indigenous species that are very popular among the populations. Afzelia africana is an endangered species according to the Benin Red List and vulnerable according to the IUCN status.
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The celebration of the International Day for Biological Diversity was an opportunity for us to communicate about the Quarry Life Award competition, the wildlife of Fongba quarry, the Heildelberg Cement Group, the activities of our project and to present a communication on the theme: "Biodiversity and quarries, case study of Fongba quarry in Lokossa, Benin". A total of 15 participants, representatives of NGOs, youth organization platform, start-ups and young researchers took part in conference.
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