April 22, 2024 is the 55th World Earth Day, and the theme of this year's Earth Day is "Planet vs. Plastics". In order to thoroughly study and implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, publicize Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization, guide the whole society to establish the concept of ecological civilization of "respecting nature, conforming to nature, and protecting nature", promote the construction of beautiful Qianshan, and jointly build an earth home where man and nature coexist in harmony, Tianzhushan Global Geopark, Anqing Qianshan Ecological Environment Branch and Qianshan Pailou Central Primary School jointly carried out the 55th "World Earth Day" and the 5th Asia-Pacific Geopark Week Science Popularization Campaign. In the form of museum-school cooperation and joint construction and common benefit, Tianzhushan Geopark will give full play to the social education function of the museum and jointly build a "second classroom" for popular science education.
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The 6th Asian Pacific Geoparks Network
Symposium took place in Rinjani Lombok UNESCO Global Geopark, which gave the
opportunity to the representatives of the majority of the 60 UNESCO Global
Geoparks in Asia and Pacific to meet with other colleagues, to exchange ideas
and experiences and to enjoy networking and collaboration.
Parallel to the 6th Asian Pacific
Geoparks Network Symposium, many other important meetings took place such as
the 4th UNESCO Global Geoparks Council Meeting, GGN Executive
Board Meeting, the APGN Advisory Committee Meeting, the APGN Coordination
Committee Meeting, the APGN Geopark fair.
During the APGN Coordination Committee
Meeting which took place on September 2nd in Rinjani Lombok UNESCO
Global Geopark, the elections of the New Coordinators and the new Advisory
Committee of the APGN took place and the new Operation Guidelines of the APGN
were adopted.
600 participants at the very well organized
6th Asian Pacific Geopark Symposium in Rinjani Lombok UNESCO Global
Geoparks, Indonesia, had the opportunity to meet and exchange ideas, best
practice and information.
During the Symposium sessions the UNESCO
Global Geoparks and the aspiring Geoparks from Asia and Pacific presented
papers on Geoparks operation and management, in networking and collaboration
among Geoparks and in building stronger and more effective partnerships and
collaborations. Tianzhushan representative gave an oral presentation
titled “Tianzhushan UNESCO Global Geopark Vigorously Promotes the Local
Community’s Social-economic Sustainable Development”.
Parallel to the Symposium the 3rd UNESCO Global Geoparks Evaluator’s Seminar took place on September 5th, 2019.
