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Recently, in the 21st century, geotourism has emerged to deal with non-living parts of the natural environment. Geological features and landforms are examples of abiotic nature or geodiversity phenomena. [6] Geotourism adds to ecotourism's principal focus on plants (flora) and animals (fauna) by adding a third dimension to the abiotic ...
Geodiversity is the variety of earth materials, forms and processes that constitute and shape the Earth, either the whole or a specific part of it. [1] Relevant materials include minerals , rocks , sediments , fossils , soils and water .
5 October - World Teachers' Day; 6 October - International Geodiversity Day [17] 11 October - International Day of the Girl Child; 13 October - International Day for Disaster Reduction; 17 October - International Day for the Eradication of Poverty; 24 October - United Nations Day; 27 October - World Day for Audiovisual Heritage
These sites are also known by other names, such as regionally important geological sites, Regionally Important Geodiversity Sites (especially in Wales [1]), County Geodiversity Sites in Norfolk, [2] Local Geodiversity Sites in Scotland [3] and Lancashire, [4] and as County Geology Sites in Cornwall [5] and Devon and in the Republic of Ireland.
The Global Geoparks Network (GGN) (also known as the Global Network of National Geoparks) is UNESCO assisted network established in 1998. Managed under the body's Ecological and Earth Sciences Division, the GGN seeks the promotion and conservation of the planet's geological heritage, as well as encourages the sustainable research and development by the concerned communities.
International Day of Peace: 28 September International Day for the Universal Access to Information: 5 October World Teachers' Day: 6 October International Geodiversity Day [114] 11 October International Day of the Girl Child: 13 October International Day for Disaster Reduction: 17 October International Day for the Eradication of Poverty: 24 October
An example of the biodiversity of fungi in a forest in North Saskatchewan (in this photo, there are also leaf lichens and mosses). Biodiversity is the variability of life on Earth. It can be measured on various levels. There is for example genetic variability, species diversity, ecosystem diversity and phylogenetic diversity. [1]
In Great Britain, a Local Geodiversity Action Plan is a plan which sets out actions to conserve, enhance and promote the geodiversity of a particular area, usually based along local authority boundaries such as a county. For convenience both in speech and in the written word the term is often shortened to its acronym LGAP (and pronounced 'ell ...