CHARCON HARD LANDSCAPING
The Wildlife Trusts
We now have nine extraction sites certified to The Wildlife Trusts’ Biodiversity Benchmark, with Ripon Quarry recently handed over to the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust in 2020. We will increase the number of sites certified and continue to work with partners on landscape scale projects across the country. In this year’s report we are highlighting the on-going work being done at our Blackhill Quarry as part of a project to extend lowland heathland habitats in Devon. Our positive contribution to ecosystems is measured and monitored using a Biodiversity Indicator Reporting System (BIRS) developed by Holcim. The BIRS methodology requires annual surveys of site habitats and generates a numerical biodiversity score per site. Over time we expect each site’s score to increase as restoration takes place to create an enhanced landscape. The implementation of this new system is in the early phase. In 2017, we hosted a Holcim training event for people from around the world to develop an understanding of the requirements and what could be achieved. Delegates were taken to Holme Park (Cumbria) and Back Lane (Lancashire) to see how biodiversity is managed in hard rock quarry operations and to Newbold (Staffordshire) for progressive restoration in a sand and gravel quarry.
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