Quarry Products Association Northern Ireland

Biodiversity Officer
Laverne Bell

Contact Details
Nutts Corner Business Park, Dundrod Road, Crumlin, BT29 4FR
Tel: 028 9082 4078
E-Mail: lbell@qpani.org

Biodiversity Projects

Digging Deep - Partnership for Woodland Creation in Operation  

Quarries in Northern Ireland plant thousands of native trees every year and can even get their local communities involved in the planting too! QPANI Members' have teamed up with The Woodland Trust's 'More Trees More Good' offer to get even more native woodlands planted in Northern Ireland.

Woodland Trust in Northern Ireland, part of the UK's largest woodland conservation charity is working with QPANI to create new woodlands on members' quarry site across the province - helping to reach their targets. The Trust wants to see a doubling of native woodland cover throughout the UK over the next 50 years.  This achievement, according to the conservation charity, would require 20 million trees to be planted per year throughout the UK - but at the moment we're planting just 6 million.

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Local Sites of Interest

Success Stories

Beautiful Biodiversity Captured Through The Lens

Elephant Hawk Moth � a striking specie, have you ever seen one in your garden?

Angus Kennedy (Mattest) and Dessie McGuckin (Northstone Materials) have been working with Moth Recorder Kerry Leonard at their Hutchinsons sand site at Toomebridge.

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Sand martins - an iconic visitor with the quarrying industry

sand martins in flight over a sand pit.

Sand Martins are one of our summer migratory visitors to Britain and Ireland; similar to the House Martin and Swallow. Quarries and sand pits play host to this wonderful species every year!  

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