LAFARGE QUARRY WINS WILDLIFE AWARD
Interactive school visits and a dedicated education centre have helped Lafarge’s Dry Rigg Quarry earn a top honour in a major wildlife competition.
The site, near Settle, North Yorkshire, picked up the Community Award for the Dry Quarry class (less than 5ha of water) in the British Trust for Ornithology EDF Energy Business Bird Challenge 2010.
Run on a biennial basis, the challenge seeks to recognise the best business sites for birds, conservation and people in the UK.
Awards are given to areas where birds thrive and initiatives are undertaken to protect, enhance and promote biodiversity.
For the second consecutive challenge Dry Rigg, operated by Lafarge Aggregates & Concrete UK, was applauded with the judges saying the site ‘excelled’ in community work.
Activities which particularly caught the judges’ attention
were the refurbishment of old quarry buildings to create an Education Centre and the link-up with nearby Settle Middle School to help design floating Tern nesting platforms.
The quarry narrowly missed out on the Conservation Award – the honour won in the last challenge for its work in encouraging lapwing breeding habitat.
Kate Aldridge, Challenge Organiser said:
“Many industrial sites in this country are havens for birds and the BTO – EDF Energy Business Bird Challenge is a wonderful opportunity for the British Trust for Ornithology to showcase what industry is doing to enhance biodiversity. Lafarge’s Dry Rigg Quarry did some fantastic work enthusing visiting students about the wildlife that is encouraged on site. The final total for educational visits was 447 –truly impressive for a small working quarry. We offer our congratulations to all those involved in the site’s management, they are making a major contribution to conservation in the UK and thoroughly deserve this award.”
Mick Lambert, Quarry Manager at Dry Rigg said:
“It’s fantastic news for everyone connected with the quarry that we’ve won this award. It’s the culmination of several years work really, as we’ve had steadily increasing amounts of visitors from all over the country and now we have the redeveloped education centre hopefully this year we’ll see even more.”
Apollo becomes Planet Positive certified
Integrated property services provider, the Apollo Group has become a Planet Positive certified company, demonstrating its commitment to measuring and reducing its carbon emissions. Planet Positive is an international environmental mark that recognises organisations that have committed to reducing their carbon footprint by at least 5% per year and that have a sound reduction programme in place to achieve these targets.
Apollo has committed to reduce its carbon emissions by 50% by 2020; to achieving zero waste to landfill; and to reaching Gold Status under the Mayor of London’s Green Procurement Code.
Apollo’s Sustainability Manager, Andy Merrin said: "Working with Planet Positive will provide Apollo with a real focus as we move forward with our environmental strategy. It will also help us raise awareness of sustainability with all of our stakeholders.”
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