Tanzania Portland Cement Company Ltd (TPCC Ltd) AWARDS THE top three project reports for the Quarry Life Award Campaign.
Dar es Salaam 29, Oct, 2012, THE HeidelbergCement (HC) group is the
global market leader in aggregates and a prominent player in the fields of
cement, concrete and other downstream activities, making it one of the world’s
largest manufacturers of building materials. The company employs some 52,500
people at 2,500 locations in more than 40 countries
Tanzania Portland
Cement Company (TPCC) popularly known as Twiga Cement is a part of the HC group
whose operations are in Tanzania.
The Heidelberg
Group has a long history in biodiversity management, and as a company, the
group has adopted a global biodiversity policy, which has been translated into
sustainability ambitions 2020. In line with this, Tanzania Portland Cement
Company Ltd. (TPCC) launched a three year Public Private Partnership with GIZ
focusing on restoration of its previously mined quarries. This commenced in
October 2010 and is ongoing until 2013.
In 2011 the Heidelberg
Group launched an international scientific and educational competition called
the QUARRY LIFE AWARD (QLA). The
main aim of this competition was: to boost mining ecology and biodiversity; to
increase stakeholder awareness on the biological value of mining sites; and to
increase collaboration with the surrounding and external community. The
competition was open to students and researchers to propose projects related to
biodiversity conservation, education and awareness in quarries.
TPCC launched the
Tanzanian chapter of the QLA in January 2012. Over 30 project proposals were
received from students and researchers from various institutes in Tanzania, and
the top 5 project proposals were selected by the national jury members to
proceed to the next stage to develop project reports. The competition came to a
close on the 28th of September 2012, in which the top five project
reports were evaluated again by national jury members based on the criteria
developed by the group to select the top three reports. The top three finalists
were selected and will be awarded cash prizes in Tanzanian shillings as
follows:
·
Equivalent
of 5000 Euros
·
Equivalent
of 3,500 Euros
·
Equivalent
of 1,500 Euros
The winners of
the competition are:
1.
In
first place: Leonard Gastory Lugali, whose project was titled
“Integrated Constructed Wetland for Wastewater Treatment, Nutrient Recovery
and Quarry Re-naturalization”
2.
In
second place: David Maleko and Eliya Mtupile whose project was titled:
“The potential of Leucaena leucocephala Pioneer Trees and Cenchrus ciliaris
understory grass species in Soil Improvement and Forage Production at Wazo Hill
Quarry
3.
In
third place: Kelvin Ngongolo and Samuel Mtoka from the Tanzania Wildlife
Research Institute, Kingupira Wildlife Research Centre whose project was
titled:
“Can Revegetation of Wazo Hill Quarry Increase Butterfly Species Diversity
and Abundance?”
It is hoped that
the second chapter of the Quarry Life Award competition will take place again
in 2014, as TPCC and the Heidelberg Group strive to make make nature the
biggest winner.
More information
on the Quarry Life Award can be found on the QLA website: www.quarrylifeaward.com.
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