UNESCO Global Geoparks celebrate the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, and use this occasion to bring awareness to Indigenous Peoples within the world’s Geoparks. Global Geoparks can provide a respectful place for the Indigenous Peoples of the World that honours and respects their cultural contributions, their language, customs, and their deep understanding of…
We’re very excited that UNESCO has designated Percé, Quebec as Canada’s third Geopark. So much pride for Percé, Gaspésie and all those involved. We look forward to many years of promoting Geoparks in Canada together! Learn a bit more about Percé with these videos or better yet explore their website. Visit Percé’s Website!
The Tumbler Ridge Global Geopark Society (TRGGS) is excited to share the news issued by UNESCO today announcing that all 120 existing Global Geoparks, including the TRGG, will now officially become UNESCO sites. The announcement comes after the 195 Member States of UNESCO voted positively to create the UNESCO Global Geopark label on November 17,…
They really love our “Happy Jumpers” at UNESCO. Here Birgit and Sandy are pictured high above the TRGG. Also in the news our Videographer released a showcase of Tumbler Ridge Fall colours today!
Stonehammer Geopark from New Brunswick was kind enough to send this personal message to celebrate the official inauguration of the Tumbler Ridge Geopark.
The weekend of June 5-7 was spent in productive fashion by a group of ten Junior Rangers from Tumbler Ridge. In previous years the Junior Rangers have taken on the task of cleaning, clearing and brushing the board-walked trails at the Bullmoose Marshes wetland site, 25 kilometres from town beside Hwy 29. This year they…
Stonehammer Geopark is no longer the only geopark in North America and no one is more pleased about this than the team at Stonehammer, well, maybe the team from Tumbler Ridge! We were thrilled when Tumbler Ridge received the designation at the 6th International UNESCO Conference on Global Geoparks hosted in our geopark in September…
Educational programs are an essential requirement of all Global Geoparks. As the Tumbler Ridge Global Geopark evolves, expanded educational activities for all ages and in all seasons will be developed, with the Tumbler Ridge Museum Foundation taking the anchor role. The 2015 museum budget includes a full time education co-ordinator position, to be augmented by…
The tension built towards the end of the 6th International UNESCO Conference on Geoparks held at Stonehammer Global Geopark in New Brunswick last September. The announcement of eleven new Global Geoparks in the world was made at the end of a gala dinner on the last night of the conference and the last one announced…
The ability of the Tumbler Ridge area to keep on delivering new discoveries each year is remarkable. If there were any doubts on this score the Golden Summer of 2014 dispels them. Some of these exciting events have already been reported: the discovery of a new dinosaur tracksite deep into the mountains (probably the…
