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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
The International Day for Biological Diversity (or World Biodiversity Day) is a United Nations–sanctioned international day for the promotion of biodiversity issues. It is currently held on May 22. [1] The International Day for Biological Diversity falls within the scope of the UN Post-2015 Development Agenda's Sustainable Development Goals.
International Day of Forests: March 21 World Planting Day [29] [30] [31] March 21 World Wood Day [32] March 21 World Water Day: March 22 International Seal Day [33] March 22 World Meteorological Day: March 23 International Day of Zero Waste [34] March 30 World Aquatic Animal Day [35] April 3 World Rat Day [36] [37] [38] April 4 International ...
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 .
International Day to Protect Education from Attack: 15 September International Day of Democracy: 20 September International Day for University Sport: 21 September 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 ...
In some areas the designation RIGS continues under its original name (e.g. in Dorset, [2] and Greater Manchester), but in Wales RIGS now stands for 'Regionally Important Geodiversity Site', while in other areas the equivalent local geology site is now called a 'County Geology Site' (to correspond to County Wildlife Site, e.g. in Cornwall [3 ...
Also on an international level, several sites of geoheritage values are inscribed on the World Heritage list under criterion VIII and/or criterion VII. Africa has a globally significant geodiversity that represents geological-geomorphological processes from the Archean to the Quaternary . [ 1 ]
The state of geoconservation legislation in 37 countries in Europe was described by specialists in each country and published in Geoheritage in Europe and its conservation in 2012 by ProGEO (The European Association for the Conservation of the Geological Heritage, now, in 2023, the International Association for the Conservation of Geological Heritage).