Zigong Geopark has affiliated the GGN (Global Geoparks Network) officially after a field expedition and a strict review by the experts who were commissioned by UNESCO. So far 55 Geoparks in 17 Member ...
1st - 5th October 2008, Rab Island, Croatia The Organizing Committee, on behalf of the ProGEO-Croatia and the ProGEO European Association for the Conservation of the Geological Heritage, has the plea...
The International Year of Planet Earth was officially launched on Feb. 12 at the headquarters of UNESCO in Paris. UNESCO's Director General Koïchiro Matsuura was host the event.
On 11 February 2008, the Director-General of UNESCO, Mr Koïchiro Matsuura and Mr Wang Shouxiang, Vice-Minister of Land and Resources of the People's Republic of China, signed an Agreement establishing...
Iran has inaugurated the 1st International Conference on the 'Role of Geoparks' in the Tourism Industry Development on Monday. UNESCO representatives, Head of Iran's Environment Organization, Preside...
The United Nations General Assembly in New York has proclaimed the year 2008 to be the United Nations International Year of Planet Earth. The Year's activities will actually span 2007-2009 and support...
Longhu Mountain Geopark has affiliated the GGN (Global Geoparks Network) officially after a field expedition and a strict review by the experts who were commissioned...
During these two days, the representatives — through pictures and corresponding texts — introduced their working progresses in geoheritage conservation, dissemination of and education in earth science...
The Report Conference of China's GGN Members was held in Beijing during the period from 11 to 12 December. Altogether about 100 persons, including the managements from 18 China's GGN members...
Recently, batches of tourists and college students visited and surveyed Xinchang Silicified Wood Geopark, Zhejiang Province, China in succession, which indicated that the Geopark had become a good pla...
The 1st Regional Conference on Asia-Pacific Geoparks and business Dialogue was held successfully in Malaysia during the period of 13th to 15th November 2007, at which about 200 experts and scholars fr...
On 12 November, Mt. Tai China announced that it and Mt. Fuji became friendly mountains.
International Forum on Geoparks: Interpretation and Sustainable Development was held successfully at Yuntaishan Global Geopark, Xiuwu County, Henan Profvince from 11-14 October,2007
China has built a large earth dam to protect a dinosaur fossil site from being washed away by floods, state media said on Tuesday.
In recognition of the cultural and environmental diversity of the area known as Bréifne, which covers Fermanagh, Leitrim, Cavan, Sligo and Roscommon, a series of information and promotional products h...
A 'VOLCANO trail' is being planned for Shetland's north mainland to help in the islands' bid for Geopark status next year.
International Union of Geological Sciences Beijing Geoheritage Office (IUGS-BJ) is responde for management of Geoheritages of China. Now we have 138 Geoheritage Members which was located in 31 provinc...
A 32-meter (105 foot) plant-eater skeleton of a new dinosaur species has been recovered in Argentina, scientists said on October 15.
UNESCO and its Global Network of National Geoparks celebrate the diversity and complexity of Planet Earth with an interdisciplinary exhibition from 16 October to 03 November 2007.To explore the challe...
The investigation group from Lunshan Mountain Geopark(P.R. China) investigated and friendlily visited the European Geopark Bergstrasse-Odenwald in Germany and the Nature Park Eisenwurzen in Austria in...
