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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From October 8th
to 13th, the 7th International Training Course on UNESCO Global Geoparks Management
and Development was held in Zhangye UGGp. More than 170 participants from
domestic global geoparks, national geoparks, research institutes and
universities conducted a one-week intensive training, and Tianzhushan UGGp sent
personnel to participate in the training.
The training
course was jointly organized by China University of Geosciences (Beijing) and
the University of the Aegean in Greece with the support of UNESCO, the
authorization of the Executive Board of the Global Geoparks Network, under the guidance
of the Department of Nature Reserve Management of the State Forestry and
Grassland Administration and the National Geoparks Network Center. The training course invited members of the
UNESCO Global Geoparks Council, members of the Executive Board of the Global
Geoparks Network and senior geopark experts as lecturers to interpret the
concept, management, communication, sustainable development significance and
declaration, evaluation and revalidation of global geoparks through offline
lectures, some delegate sharing and collective discussions. The training course
enabled geopark managers, geopark experts and scientific partners to better
understand the new charter, operational guidelines, and clarify the concepts,
principles and rules of global geoparks. At the same time, by introducing the
successful experience of the construction and effective operation of global
geoparks in the world, the problems existing in the construction and
development of geoparks were solved. After the meeting, a field trip to Zhangye
UGGp was also arranged.
At the closing
ceremony, President Nickolas Zouros and Professor Zhang Jianping said that the
event had been very effective and that the two sides would continue to hold
such training in China in the future.
