Biodiversity
Sustainable Development Awards
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Hanson - HeidelbergCement
Restoration of a former quarry into a number of after-uses
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Holcim
Through the biotope networking of the gravel excavation sites of the company, a networked system has emerged that represents a unique habitat
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Holcim
Co-Winner of the Special UEPG Biodiversity Award 2010
The gravel pit was designated a zone of special protection for birds (ZEPA)
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Hülskens GmbH & Co. KG, Wesel
Co-Winner of the Special UEPG Biodiversity Award 2010
A long-term monitoring plan to analyse which of the ecological structures established on a trial basis prove particularly effective for enhancing the diversity for species and allow the area to function as an ecological valuable part of the Rhine floodplain
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Plattard Granulats (SOREAL)
High-quality ecological development based on long-term knowledge of the site
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Welser Kieswerke Treul & Co GmbH
Special Biodiversity Award 2010 for a small company
Turning a former sand pit into an educational area in partnership with a local NGO
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Austria
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CEMEX
Offering an appropriate habitat to the Stone Curlew in cooperation with BirdLife
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HENGL Schotter-Asphalt-Recycling GmbH
Building Dragon Flies pond in cooperation with a local school and WWF
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Omya GmbH
Monitoring data in partnership with WWF through a Long-term Biodiversity Index in order to increase biodiversity knowledge
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Rigips Austria - Saint Gobain
Protecting red listed flowers
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Salzburger Sand - Kieswerke GesmbH
Protecting special local amphibians
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Welser Kieswerke Treul & Co GmbH
Special Biodiversity Award 2010 for a small company
Turning a former sand pit into an educational area in partnership with a local NGO
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Welser Kieswerke Treul & CO GmbH
Creating habitats similar to the old Danube riverside to protect several endangered species
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Zementwerk Leube GmbH
Landscape management-plan to protect and enlarge the populations of 23 red list plant-species, 9 endangered amphibians and reptils, 9 dragonflys from which 2 are red list-species, 14 grashopper-species from which 3 are endangered and 34 bee-species from which 4 are endangered
Belgium
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Carmeuse
Conversion of a quarry into a natural zone, while maintaining and increasing biodiversity
Recolonisation of Carmeuse quarry sites by the Eurasian Eagle Owl
Protection of a major sand martin colony
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Cimenteries CBR s.a. - HeidelbergCement
To preserve a network of almost 100 km of galleries of old underground quarries to ensure the safety of its huge ecological, paleontological and historical interest
Restoration of a landscape of agricultural and environmental quality
Reconstructing areas similar to those of the neighbouring Natura 2000 zones
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Dumont Wautier - Lhoist group
Creation of a natural reserve and a geological path in cooperation with the local authorities
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Gauthier-Wincqz /SAGREX
Partial backfill of a body of water to maintain the current habitat of the green frog population
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Holcim
Holcim entrusted the Natagora association to manage the environmental planning of a 35 hectare zone located between the reserve area and the quarry
Croatia
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Cesta Varazdin d.d.
Restoration of a former gravel pit for a recreational purpose, “Aquacity”
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Holcim
Planting of 21.000 trees
Czech Republic
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Českomoravské štěrkovny a.s. - HeidelbergCement
Maximal use of natural evolution to turn a formerquarry into a part of a Natura 2000 system
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Českomoravský štěrk, a. s. Mokrá - HeidelbergCement
Protecting seriously endangered Beavers
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Hanson - HeidelbergCement
To create a wide spectrum of natural and close to nature communities (mainly water and wetland communities)
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Tarmac
Improving the database of potentially endangered areas in the country
Finland
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Rudus Oy - CRH
Working with the local community to create a unique area of biodiversity
France
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CEMEX
To restore and protect the River Loire ecosystem and to create a scientific and educational area
Structuring of a peaceful area for wildlife, especially wild birds, and creation of an observatory of nature and wetlands for the public
Creation of a wetland with a pedagogical vocation
Creation of an ornithological reserve with a scientific and pedagogical vocation which offers peace to water fowl
To offer a wintering place to northern birds and a resting place for migratory birds over their flighway
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GSM - Italcementi Group
Developing the ecological potential of the quarry while preserving water resources of the site and the local natural heritage
Creation of a vast wetland zone, which is also a separating zone from a field with drinkable water resources
A management convention has been signed between naturalists and the town of Pont à Mousson in order to control the natural colonisation of the area with willows and to gather data on habitats
Bring together the preservation of the biological heritage, economic development and social progress
Biodiversity | Natural Area of high quality of environment, fauna and flora
To increase the ecological interest of an alluvium quarry from which an extraordinary aquatic domain (225 hectares) was created
To create a natural landscape with both patrimonial and educational objectives
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Holcim
To protect a large area of breeding for the European Bee-eater and the Sand Martin, with abrupt walls non accessible to walkers
To increase the number of natural environments by processing to a specific, accurate and monitored excavation work during the last step of the rehabilitation plan
To preserve specific plants of alluvial plains of Lorrain and under regional protection
To make durable the reproduction of the Peregrine Falcon on an active quarry
To attract the sand Martin colony in a quiet part of the quarry in order to sustain its nesting habit
To maintain and sustain endangered species such as the Natterjack Toad, the Wall Lizard and the Marsh Frog
To integrate an alluvial sand pit into a Natura 2000 area aiming to protect a population of bats
To protect and sustain a population of Natterjack toad
To compensate for the lack of temporary islets at water level due to the Moselle river regulation
Educating students on biodiversity
Biodiversity | Natural Area of Ecological Interest as an Important Area for the Conservation of Bird
To preserve an orchid under regional protection
Presence of many nesting bird species led to the ZPS designation of the Natura 2000
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Lafarge
Implementation of an ecological management system
Creation of a natural regional reserve and implementation of a Long term Biodiversity Index
Partnership with the Botanic Conservatoire of Brest
Launch of a Long term Biodiversity Index programme
Monitoring and preservation plan for the DROSERA rotundifolia carnivorous plant
Launch of a Long term Biodiversity Index programme
The site was rehabilitated so that birds could recolonize the rock stiffs
Identification the areas which would allow the extraction of marine aggregates both in an environmental responsible way and taking into account the technical constraints
Rehabilitation so that birds and European pond terrapin could recolonize the site
Identification the areas which would allow the extraction of marine aggregates both in an environmental responsible way and taking into account the technical constraints
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Plattard Granulats (SOREAL)
High-quality ecological development based on long-term knowledge of the site
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UNICEM
To assess the relevance of quarries for the creation of wetlands, to develop good practices and to disseminate these practices
To develop the knowledge of the ecological potential of massive rock quarries and to provide good practices
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Various companies
To create a water ponds network to provide shelter to the round-leaved sundew
Germany
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Basalt-Actien-Gesellschaft
Protection of the eagle owl
Protection of endangered species of amphibians
Barren areas of renatured quarries enable the survival of many species, including red list ones
The settlement of the yellow-bellied toad led to the classification of the quarry as a FFH-area
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CEMEX
To promote the long-term, comprehensive settlement of the green toad
To offer the most favourable habitats to the bank swallow, which is on the Red List of endangered animal species throughout Europe
To develop additional ecologically valuable habitats through raw material mining
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HeidelbergCement
To continue the development of the landscape with a connected rift system to enhance the creation of habitats
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Holcim
Through the biotope networking of the gravel excavation sites of the company, a networked system has emerged that represents a unique habitat
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Hollweg, Kümpers & Comp. KG
Creation of barren areas
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Hülskens GmbH & Co. KG, Wesel
Co-Winner of the Special UEPG Biodiversity Award 2010
A long-term monitoring plan to analyse which of the ecological structures established on a trial basis prove particularly effective for enhancing the diversity for species and allow the area to function as an ecological valuable part of the Rhine floodplain
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Lafarge
To preserve the nesting habitat of the sand martin
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Mitteldeutsche Baustoffe GmbH
To preserve the open sand surfaces as habitats for the little ringed plover
Greece
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Lafarge
Rehabilitation using seeds and plants from the area
Hungary
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Various Companies
Positive examples and challenges on mining site habitat restoration from the governmental perspective
Ireland
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CEMEX
Preserving the Kildavin Stream
To protect bats
Continued sand & gravel extraction at site while maintaining the preservation of sand martin and smooth newt populations
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McGrath Group
Protection of salmonoid rivers, lakes and of all fauna on site by creating protected habitats
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Roadstone - CRH
To preserve and enhance the local biodiversity though looking for ways to encourage wildlife into the quarry and its surroundings
To preserve the nesting habitat of the sand martin. To develop a nesting habitat for ducks. To support a diversity of flora that will attract pheasants and wildlife
To create a habitat that supports a wide diversity of flaura and fauna
Israel
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CRH associate Nesher Cement
Preservation of the ecologic system discovered at the quarry and cooperation with university researchers
Italy
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Buzzi Unicem
Creation of a “biodiversity nursery” to produce autochthonous species in order to create a highly diversified nature area in the quarry
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Cava Germaire Spa
Strategic agreement for extraction in a protected area
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Merlini Spa
Monitoring of the status of the quality of the lake resulting from the quarrying activity and program to protect the flora and the fauna and to improve the biodiversity of the entire local ecosystem
Netherlands
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Gemeente Cuijk
Biodiversity survey of “the Kraaijenbergse Plassen” near the river Maas
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Various companies
Dutch Butterfly Foundation & Cascade (Dutch Association of aggregates producers) on butterflies
Norway
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Norstone AS - HeidelbergCement
To make a bird hotel for sand martins
Slovakia
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ALAS SLOVAKIA s.r.o.
Conservation of a protected bird territory and nature protection of flood territory utilising sedimentation of sludge pits
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EUROVIA-Cesty, a.s.
The conservation of protected birds within a NATURA 2000 area
Spain
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Arenas Silíceas , S.A. & Sibelco Minerales, S.A.
Implementation of an Environmental Management System certified under ISO-14001
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ARICEMEX - CEMEX
Integrated scenic restoration with intensive reforestation
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Áridos y Premezclados, S.A. - ARIPRESA
Creation of an ecosystem rich in animal and vegetal species, turning it into one of the most important Reserve of endangered birds in the Community of Madrid
Recovering the forest of the site area
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Compañía General de Canteras, S.A. - Italcementi Group
Specific restoration of the different areas in the 52 hectares of the site, to bring them back to the original environmental levels of the exploitation
To reproduce the Mediterranean surrounding forest, looking for a maximized integration of the restored site.
To reproduce the Mediterranean surrounding forest, looking for a maximized integration of the restored site.
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Federación de Áridos
To improve biodiversity in sites through a coordinated national tree planting programme and to educate children into the importance of taking care of environment
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Gedesma
Creation of an environment of direct observation for wild animal species, especially wild birds, nesting in the surroundings of the restored lake
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Hanson - HeidelbergCement
Attempt to recover the original Jarama river wetlands areas which unfortunately almost disappeared in the region
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Holcim
Co-Winner of the Special UEPG Biodiversity Award 2010
The gravel pit was designated a zone of special protection for birds (ZEPA)
To recover the natural habitats for aquatic bird
Works of hydro-seeding of native species with the aim of fixing the soil on the slopes in order to avoid landslide and to accelerate the restoration
Implementing the ISO 14001 environmental management system
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Hormisoria, S.L.
The project “Ecomining” has chosen the environment as a key focus, through the design of innovative models, looking for environmental improvement beyond the legislation requirements
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La Paloma Segoviana , S.A.
Careful selection process of the seeds and fertilizers depending on the edaphic, climate and vegetation tests
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Procosanz Áridos, S.A.
Restoration of habitat for some steppe birds like the great bustard, the little bustard, harriers
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Promotora Mediterranea-2, S.A. Promsa - Grupo Cementos Molins
Application of good environmental practices in every aspect of the activity, including the external transport
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Tarmac
To improve and to restore the river area, taking into account the objectives of the Natural Resources Planning of the Regional Park
To restore the quarry thanks to the results of a previous research on the most suitable flora for the site
Focusing on biodiversity and agricultural uses, which was the predominant use in the region at the time of the project planning
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Various companies
To restore degraded spaces into a Regional Park, a protected natural area, inside Natura 2000
Sweden
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Jehander - HeidelbergCement
To realize a survey in order to compare the biodiversity within and outside a sand pit
To find a solution to combine an active sand pit with a flourishing insect life, including both highly threatened species and a general high diversity
Realisation of a census on Butterflies and other insects
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Nybrogrus AB
To protect a flowering landscape with an exceptional insect population
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Swerock AB
To protect insects such as rare wild-bee species
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Sydsten AB
To protect the endangered eagle owl
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Various companies
Census on insects in 50 extraction sites near Stockholm
Switzerland
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Bersier SA
To create a gravel pit learning center
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Grob Kies AG
To combine the needs of extraction sites with nature protection areas
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Gros Kies AG
Monitoring certifying restored sites
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Kieswerk Kiemy AG
To encourage the survival of the yellow-bellied toad
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Schumacher Ziegelei
Creation of a nationally important amphibian spawning ground
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Sigrist Kies GmbH
Creation of a natural area with a wide variety of species and great ecological value
United Kingdom
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Acheson & Glover Group
To create a crayfish sanctuary in a working sandpit
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Aggregate Industries - Holcim
Restoration of a sand and gravel quarry to a number of lakes, each creating a different habitat
To create a mosaic of habitats, especially those effectively lost to the Ouse Valley floodplain through intensive agricultural activity, and flood control measures to accommodate both agricultural and urban development
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CEMEX
Progressive restoration scheme in place for the quarry to provide, on completion of working, an area of high quality agricultural.
Mitigation of the potential impacts of the development of a quarry
To protect the peregrine falcons
Creation of a protected site for wildlife
Transforming a tract of unattractive, prairie-like, intensively managed farmland into an aquatic landscape to increase the landscape value of the valley, increase its biodiversity and provide a local amenity of very high wildlife value
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Hanson - HeidelbergCement
Restoration of a former quarry into a number of after-uses
Restoration of a quarry site to a nature reserve, incorporating numerous lakes
Development of a community nature reserve
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Lafarge
Creation and management of a Hay Meadow
Creation of fen vegetation complementary to existing biological resource in adjacent protected area
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Sibelco
Restoration of a former quarry for agricultural use
Extensive restoration works before donating the land to Astbury Mere Country Park
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Tarmac
Launch of Tarmac’s Biodiversity Action Plan for sites in Northumberland
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Various companies
Launch of the www.afterminerals.com website