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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 ...
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.
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 .
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.
Geoconservation is the practice of recognising, protecting and managing sites and landscapes which have value for their geology or geomorphology. [1] [2] The conservation of these geological sites is through government agencies and local geological societies in areas such as Europe and Africa.
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
International Primate Day [111] September 1 Japan Dolphin Day [112] [113] September 1 Amazon Rainforest Day [114] September 5 International Vulture Awareness Day [115] [116] [117] First Saturday of September International Day of Clean Air for blue skies: September 7 World Dolphin Day [118] September 12 International Colugo Day [119] September 15
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 ...