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October 6 is the International Geodiversity Day, celebrated worldwide by UNESCO. In order to Conserve the Past and Sustain the Future, the rich repository of the geological heritage of the transnational, Slovak-Hungarian Novohrad-Nógrád UNESCO Global Geopark will also join the event. On the traditional geotope days, October 5th and 12th, from the state border area to Ipolytarnóc and from Sámsonháza to Szentkút, it organizes many exciting and unconventional geotours into the world of volcanoes of the past.

The 20 year-old Global Geoparks Network's regional members, the Hungarian UNESCO Global Geoparks will celebrate the European Geoparks Week between May 18 and June 2, 2024 to commemorate the geological heritage of our old continent.

The International Geodiversity Day (October 6) proclaimed by UNESCO at the 41st General Conference in 2021 is a worldwide celebration to recognise the many aspects of the geoheritage of our Globe. This special day is promoted by the Hungarian Geoparks as well.

On the 19th and 20th of August, we hosted the Taiwanese team of the study tour "Hiking Route Network of Central-Eastern Europe" in the Novohrad-Nógrád UNESCO Global Geopark.

On the initiative of the Volcanic Working Group of the European Geoparks Network (EGN), a special volume including the domestic UNESCO Global Geoparks was published on the volcanism and geotourism potential of our old continent's geoparks.

The extremely diverse volcanic heritage of the Novohrad-Nógrád UNESCO Global Geopark has been popularized by the latest study by Professor Szabolcs Harangi in the Geoconservation Research Journal.

With this title, Professor László Kordos gave his presentation to the workers of the Ipolytarnóc Fossils Nature Reserve.

The transnational Slovak-Hungarian Novohrad-Nógrád Geopark, which spans national borders, received an official UNESCO recognition. It can proudly bear the title of UNESCO Global Geopark for another 4 years.

The Bükk National Park Directorate and the Štátna ochrana prójdy Slovenskej republiky (State Nature Protection Office of the Slovak Republic) organized the "Together we protect nature" competition on May 31, 2023, on the Slovak side of the Somoskő castle, in accordance with traditions dating back several years in the transnational, Slovak-Hungarian Geopark.

The geopark networks of the V4 countries (Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia) - at the initiative of the Ministry of Environment of the Slovak Republic and the Slovak Environment Agency - signed a declaration of intent for cooperation („Memorandum of Cooperation among the Visegrad Group Geoparks“) at an international meeting held in Banská Štiavnica (Selmecbánya) on May 10, 2023.

Members of the UNESCO Global Geoparks regional network, the European Geoparks Network (EGN) commemorate the geological heritage of our old continent every year from the end of May to the beginning of June, to which the transnational Slovak-Hungarian Novohrad-Nógrád Geopark also joins.

International geoparkers appeared at the Slovak-Hungarian stateborder on the topic of Photography and Climate Change project to visit the spectacular borderline geosites of the transnational Novohrad-Nógrád UNESCO Global Geopark on January 18, 2023.

The Novohrad-Nógrád UNESCO Global Geopark suffered a great loss. Our founding member Ivona Cimermanova has passed away. Her spirit and activity have been incorporated into the consciousness of our geopark, and are now part of our heritage.

The Fossil Site of Ipolytarnóc can be visited even during the winter break, and as time-travel hunters, the visitors can follow the footprints of former tropical predators.

The Hungarian Natural History Museum issued a press release on the latest results of the research on the fossil footprints of Ipolytarnóc. Together with the staff of the Bükki National Park Directorate and the Herman Ottó Museum in Miskolc, they used the latest techniques, including 3D scanning, to track down the Miocene prehistoric world.

The thematic tours of the Bükk National Park Directorate are becoming more and more popular at the Ipolytarnóc Fossils Nature Reserve.

As part of the RiWild INTERREG project of the Bükk National Park Directorate the research on the footprinted sandstone continues, the expert of the Herman Ottó Museum of Miskolc stated about the newest discoveries in the media.

A new study was published on the research concerning the paleohabitat of the Ipolytarnoc Fossils.

In the second half of May the Prehistoric Pompeii of the Miocene Park awaits its visitors with special programs.

The staff of the Ipolytarnóc Fossils will collect the rubbish on the access roads of the area in honor of the Earth Day and will celebrate the famous event with a special thematic tour.