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<\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div>The extractive industry<\/h1><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>THE ACTIVITY<\/h2>\n
The extractive industry includes all economic activities aiming to extract soil aggregates such as limestone, dolomite, porphyry, sandstone, gravel and sand, clay, blue stone, marble, slate, coticule, etc and subject them to transformation.
\nThis sector represents :<\/p>\n<\/div>
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73 million tonnes of rock extracted and sold in Belgium in 2015\u00a0 <\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>![\"picto-activite-2\"](\"http:\/\/www.lifeinquarries.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/picto-activite-2.png\")
<\/span><\/p>\n200
\nproduction sites<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>![\"picto-activite-3\"](\"http:\/\/www.lifeinquarries.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/picto-activite-3.png\")
<\/span><\/p>\n3500<\/span>
\ndirect employees <\/span>
\n<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>![\"picto-activite-4\"](\"http:\/\/www.lifeinquarries.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/picto-activite-4.png\")
<\/span><\/p>\n10.500
\nindirect employees
\n<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>ESSENTIAL PRODUCTS FOR OUR SOCIETY<\/h2>\n
The uses for the raw materials extracted from the quarries are numerous.\u00a0 We use them everyday: toothpaste, production of sugar, paper, glass, paints, colourings, varnishes and primers.\u00a0 In agriculture, these products are used in food conservation. In the environment, they are used in the treatment of water, sludge, smoke and household waste, as well as in steel, chemicals, construction or civil engineering.<\/p>\n<\/div>
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<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/span>Partners<\/h1><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>The Life in Quarries project proves operational biodiversity solutions can be proposed and implemented through controlled investments benefiting environmental protectors as well as the private sector.<\/p>\n
The aim is defining measures which are acceptable to the private operator, which are legally and scientifically valid and favourable to biodiversity. The partnership forged on this basis includes the private sector, authorities, scientists, NGOs.<\/p>\n
The Life in Quarries project is led by FEDIEX in partnership with the Walloon region (Department of Nature and Forests), University of Li\u00e8ge -Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, Biodiversity and Landscape Unit, Natagora asbl and the Parc naturel des Plaines de l\u2019Escaut.<\/p>\n<\/div>
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<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>FEDIEX (F\u00e9d\u00e9ration de l\u2019Industrie Extractive et Transformatrice de Belgique)<\/span><\/h2>\nFEDIEX is a professional federation with a national and regional vocation including all small and large businesses performing mining or transforming non-combustible rocks.<\/p>\n<\/div>
see website<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>![](\"http:\/\/www.lifeinquarries.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/logo-partenaires-wallonie.png\")
<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>The Walloon region<\/span><\/h2>\nThe Directorate of Nature for the Department of Nature and Forests (DNF) coordinates actions in the entire territory to ensure the maintenance and development of biodiversity by ensuring the application of the Law on Nature Conservation.<\/p>\n
The involvement of the Department of Nature and Forests for the Walloon region develops interest from the public in the initiatives guaranteeing the maintenance and development of biodiversity in the economic activity zones.<\/p>\n
The Life in Quarries project is part of the philosophy of the Wallonia Nature Network aiming to improve the potential to house wildlife wherever possible and through each representative within the field of its activities. The project aims to create networks of habitats favourable to the development of rare and protected populations.\u00a0 However, the goal is also the cohabitation between biodiversity and mining in quarries.<\/p>\n<\/div>
see website<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>![](\"http:\/\/www.lifeinquarries.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/logo-partenaires-ulg.png\")
<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>ULg \u2013 Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech – Biodiversity and Landscape Unit<\/u>
\n<\/span><\/h2>\nULg develops fundamental and applied research projects and awareness-raising actions in the areas of biodiversity management, management of biological invasions, functional and evolutionary ecology and landscape ecology.<\/p>\n<\/div>
see website<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>![](\"http:\/\/www.lifeinquarries.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/logo-partenaires-natagora.png\")
<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Natagora<\/span><\/h2>\nNatagora is a non-profit association for the protection of nature active in Wallonia and Brussels. The goal is to control the loss of biodiversity and restore a good general state of nature in balance with human activities. Natagora acquires nature reserves (over 4,300 hectares), restore rare environments, studies species, offers tours, discovery walks and trainings, etc.<\/p>\n<\/div>
THE ACTIVITY<\/h2>\n
The extractive industry includes all economic activities aiming to extract soil aggregates such as limestone, dolomite, porphyry, sandstone, gravel and sand, clay, blue stone, marble, slate, coticule, etc and subject them to transformation.
\nThis sector represents :<\/p>\n<\/div>
<\/p>\n
73 million tonnes of rock extracted and sold in Belgium in 2015\u00a0 <\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n200
\nproduction sites<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n3500<\/span>
\ndirect employees <\/span>
\n<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n10.500
\nindirect employees
\n<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>ESSENTIAL PRODUCTS FOR OUR SOCIETY<\/h2>\n
The uses for the raw materials extracted from the quarries are numerous.\u00a0 We use them everyday: toothpaste, production of sugar, paper, glass, paints, colourings, varnishes and primers.\u00a0 In agriculture, these products are used in food conservation. In the environment, they are used in the treatment of water, sludge, smoke and household waste, as well as in steel, chemicals, construction or civil engineering.<\/p>\n<\/div>
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<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/span>Partners<\/h1><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>The Life in Quarries project proves operational biodiversity solutions can be proposed and implemented through controlled investments benefiting environmental protectors as well as the private sector.<\/p>\n
The aim is defining measures which are acceptable to the private operator, which are legally and scientifically valid and favourable to biodiversity. The partnership forged on this basis includes the private sector, authorities, scientists, NGOs.<\/p>\n
The Life in Quarries project is led by FEDIEX in partnership with the Walloon region (Department of Nature and Forests), University of Li\u00e8ge -Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, Biodiversity and Landscape Unit, Natagora asbl and the Parc naturel des Plaines de l\u2019Escaut.<\/p>\n<\/div>
<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>FEDIEX (F\u00e9d\u00e9ration de l\u2019Industrie Extractive et Transformatrice de Belgique)<\/span><\/h2>\nFEDIEX is a professional federation with a national and regional vocation including all small and large businesses performing mining or transforming non-combustible rocks.<\/p>\n<\/div>
see website<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>The Walloon region<\/span><\/h2>\nThe Directorate of Nature for the Department of Nature and Forests (DNF) coordinates actions in the entire territory to ensure the maintenance and development of biodiversity by ensuring the application of the Law on Nature Conservation.<\/p>\n
The involvement of the Department of Nature and Forests for the Walloon region develops interest from the public in the initiatives guaranteeing the maintenance and development of biodiversity in the economic activity zones.<\/p>\n
The Life in Quarries project is part of the philosophy of the Wallonia Nature Network aiming to improve the potential to house wildlife wherever possible and through each representative within the field of its activities. The project aims to create networks of habitats favourable to the development of rare and protected populations.\u00a0 However, the goal is also the cohabitation between biodiversity and mining in quarries.<\/p>\n<\/div>
see website<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>ULg \u2013 Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech – Biodiversity and Landscape Unit<\/u>
\n<\/span><\/h2>\nULg develops fundamental and applied research projects and awareness-raising actions in the areas of biodiversity management, management of biological invasions, functional and evolutionary ecology and landscape ecology.<\/p>\n<\/div>
see website<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Natagora<\/span><\/h2>\nNatagora is a non-profit association for the protection of nature active in Wallonia and Brussels. The goal is to control the loss of biodiversity and restore a good general state of nature in balance with human activities. Natagora acquires nature reserves (over 4,300 hectares), restore rare environments, studies species, offers tours, discovery walks and trainings, etc.<\/p>\n<\/div>
The uses for the raw materials extracted from the quarries are numerous.\u00a0 We use them everyday: toothpaste, production of sugar, paper, glass, paints, colourings, varnishes and primers.\u00a0 In agriculture, these products are used in food conservation. In the environment, they are used in the treatment of water, sludge, smoke and household waste, as well as in steel, chemicals, construction or civil engineering.<\/p>\n<\/div> The Life in Quarries project proves operational biodiversity solutions can be proposed and implemented through controlled investments benefiting environmental protectors as well as the private sector.<\/p>\n The aim is defining measures which are acceptable to the private operator, which are legally and scientifically valid and favourable to biodiversity. The partnership forged on this basis includes the private sector, authorities, scientists, NGOs.<\/p>\n The Life in Quarries project is led by FEDIEX in partnership with the Walloon region (Department of Nature and Forests), University of Li\u00e8ge -Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, Biodiversity and Landscape Unit, Natagora asbl and the Parc naturel des Plaines de l\u2019Escaut.<\/p>\n<\/div> FEDIEX is a professional federation with a national and regional vocation including all small and large businesses performing mining or transforming non-combustible rocks.<\/p>\n<\/div> The Directorate of Nature for the Department of Nature and Forests (DNF) coordinates actions in the entire territory to ensure the maintenance and development of biodiversity by ensuring the application of the Law on Nature Conservation.<\/p>\n The involvement of the Department of Nature and Forests for the Walloon region develops interest from the public in the initiatives guaranteeing the maintenance and development of biodiversity in the economic activity zones.<\/p>\n The Life in Quarries project is part of the philosophy of the Wallonia Nature Network aiming to improve the potential to house wildlife wherever possible and through each representative within the field of its activities. The project aims to create networks of habitats favourable to the development of rare and protected populations.\u00a0 However, the goal is also the cohabitation between biodiversity and mining in quarries.<\/p>\n<\/div> ULg develops fundamental and applied research projects and awareness-raising actions in the areas of biodiversity management, management of biological invasions, functional and evolutionary ecology and landscape ecology.<\/p>\n<\/div> Natagora is a non-profit association for the protection of nature active in Wallonia and Brussels. The goal is to control the loss of biodiversity and restore a good general state of nature in balance with human activities. Natagora acquires nature reserves (over 4,300 hectares), restore rare environments, studies species, offers tours, discovery walks and trainings, etc.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/span><\/p>\n200
\nproduction sites<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div><\/span><\/p>\n3500<\/span>
\ndirect employees <\/span>
\n<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div><\/span><\/p>\n10.500
\nindirect employees
\n<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>ESSENTIAL PRODUCTS FOR OUR SOCIETY<\/h2>\n
<\/p>\n<\/div><\/p>\n<\/div><\/p>\n<\/div><\/p>\n<\/div>Partners<\/h1><\/span>
<\/span><\/div><\/div>FEDIEX (F\u00e9d\u00e9ration de l\u2019Industrie Extractive et Transformatrice de Belgique)<\/span><\/h2>\n
<\/span><\/div><\/div>The Walloon region<\/span><\/h2>\n
<\/span><\/div><\/div>ULg \u2013 Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech – Biodiversity and Landscape Unit<\/u>
\n<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/span><\/div><\/div>Natagora<\/span><\/h2>\n
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