Le QLA est un concours scientifique et éducatif qui a lieu tous les trois ans. Il se tient simultanément aux niveaux national et international. Son objectif est de sensibiliser aux enjeux liés à la préservation de la biodiversité dans les carrières et d’identifier de nouvelles façons de la valoriser.
Des projets en matière de mise en valeur et de préservation de la biodiversité sont actuellement menés dans nos carrières dans le monde entier. En 2022, dans le cadre du concours international, nous décernerons des prix allant jusqu'à 30 000 €.
15 aoû 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 aoû 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 aoû 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.
On 22 July, our research team, the HeidelbergCement local representative, and the international jury member visited the Aït Baha quarry. During the meeting, our research team presented the progress report of the project and discussed the main results. We also got some useful recommendations from the international jury member. After the meeting, we visited our experimental rehabilitation plot in the quarry and discussed how such activities could be improved. Despite the high midday temperature,...
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During the research period, we recorded a rich fauna diversity in the Aït Baha quarry, including arthropods, reptiles, birds and mammals. We created two posters of 25 animal species, which will be exhibited at the quarry and also used as a pedagogic support for the zoology course at the Faculty of Science, Ibn Zoh University, Agadir.
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Today we publish some photos of our experimental activities to create a demonstrative rehabilitation spot on the Ait Baha Quarry site. The focus is to create an adequate habitat to accelerate the re-vegetation process and to attract fauna species. 1. Terraces covered with topsoil and planted with Mediterranean species, adapted to water stress,to increase biomass and to improve natural vegetation establishment; 2. Gabion walls as potential microhabitats for wildlife, as they serve as shelters...
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We are going to follow the story of the Long-winged buzzard pair, who nests at the Aït Baha quarry. This year it was successful, and two chicks hatched and fledged. On 17 June 2022, the two young raptors are still around the nest, waiting for a careless lizard or a small rodent that wanders away from its burrow.
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