👉 International Geodiversity Day is approaching quickly! 🌏 If you're hosting an event, don't forget to register it on our website, and we will share it with the world! You can also find helpful resources, and examples of events from previous years. www.geodiversityday.org/organise-an-...

🥐 Breakfast in St. Gervais 🧀 Lunch in Geneva 🥩 Dinner in Paris 🚄 All in time for the train to London 🏔 The perfect journey back from the Chalet des Anglais.

The Darwin Medal 2026 is awarded to Professor Michael J Benton OBE FRS for his contribution to many aspects of palaeontological science, as well as authoring the standard textbooks in the field, popular science and children’s books. #RSMedals https://royalsociety.org/medals-and-prizes/darwin-medal/

#UnivChalet2026 begins...

👉 Our 'High-Rise Hylaecullulus' Geosite at Grace Dieu reveals the amazing story of one of our 560 million year old fossils - complete with a wooden sculpture of Hylaecullulus. 🌐 Plan your visit: www.charnwoodforest.org/location/hig...

🌙 Oxford's Port Meadow this evening. The perfect place for some astronomical observations (using a cardboard contraption of my own design) #Eclipse

📺 You might want to tune in to tonight's episode of Evolution on the BBC - presenter Chris Packham goes on a fossil adventure in Charnwood Forest Geopark...

It's been quite the fortnight, from welcoming UNESCO Global Geopark evaluators to Charnwood Forest, straight into a mission to revalidate the Molina Alto Tajo Geopark 🇪🇸. Time for a rest!

🌍 Last week we welcomed two UNESCO Global Geopark evaluators to Charnwood Forest. 👍 Thank you to all our partner organisations and volunteers who supported the evaluation visit. We now await the decisions of the Global Geopark Council in Oct and UNESCO Executive Board in May.

🙏 Please take part in our survey to better understand what the public knows about fossils - it will help us to better conserve and celebrate our planets heritage:

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📢 Take part in our survey! 👉 We're working on a research project with a great student - Harry Jones - to try and better understand what the public know about the fossil heritage of Leicestershire. 🌐 Take part here: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/leicester/...

5⃣ Our Fossils of the First Animals Itinerary features five geosites, each including a wooden sculpture of one of our 560 million year old fossils! 🌐 Discover more: www.charnwoodforest.org/explore/firs...

It's been a long final weekend of preparations, but I think we're ready. Charnwood Forest Geopark is ready for UNESCO.

🇨🇦 In 2022, we launched a sistership agreement with the Discovery UNESCO Global Geopark in Canada. This link builds on our shared geological heritage - they have fossils in their Geopark, such as Charnia, that were first named from Charnwood Forest.

🌳 Geopark Supports Loughborough Uni-Led Project to Open Up Environmental Science for Young People 🌐 Read more on our website: www.charnwoodforest.org/geopark-supp...

👉 This week our team have been sharing the story of Charnwood Forest at the UK UNESCO Chairs’ Conference at Loughborough University. As we work towards our own UNESCO designation, it was a pleasure to welcome the UK’s UNESCO-affiliated researchers to our region.

👉 We're looking for new Trustees to help us shape the future of Charnwood Forest Geopark. 🌐 Find out more on our website: www.charnwoodforest.org/charnwood-fo...

A message from Dr Graham Ryan, MVO Director, was delivered at the UK-based diaspora-led Volcano Awareness Month opening celebrating Montserrat’s culture, history & identity. Read: www.mvo.ms/wp-content/u...

⛏ Join the Geopark online, this Sunday, for a very special livestream bringing you live coverage of the community archaeological digs in Woodhouse and Woodhouse Eaves. 📆 Sun 5 July, 1.30-3pm 🌐 More information and links to join: www.charnwoodforest.org/event/geopar...

👉 We're looking for new Trustees to help us shape the future of Charnwood Forest Geopark. 🌐 Find out more on our website: www.charnwoodforest.org/charnwood-fo...

🌟 Our Discovering Charnia Geosite at Outwoods now features a sculpture of the fossil Charnia. 5⃣ This is one of five sculptures created by local chainsaw artist Peter Leadbeater, bringing to life our 560 million year old fossils. 🌐 Plan your visit: www.charnwoodforest.org/location/out...

The extent to which fieldwork in palaeontology (& other research areas) is valued has been in long-term decline, with funding challenging despite its fundamental importance. Will the rise of AI change this given that finding, collecting & studying new fossils cannot be done by a computer? I hope so.

🥳 Congratulations to Colin Prosser, friend of the Geopark and lately Principal Specialist Geoheritage and Geoconservation at Natural England, on being appointed an MBE in the King's Birthday Honours list. This MBE has been awarded in recognition of his service to geoconservation.

🇵🇹 There's so much more to the Algarve than beaches. 🌐 Read my travel article for City AM on exploring the Via Algarviana hiking trail: www.cityam.com/portugal-hol...

🥳 This past weekend Cllr Deborah Taylor, Chair of the Bradgate Park Trust, formally opened our new Beautiful Bradgatia Geosite at Bradgate Park. 🌐 Discover the story of the 560 million year old fossil Bradgatia. Plan your trip: www.charnwoodforest.org/location/bea...

Thank you to Shetland Geopark for hosting us all for this year's UK meeting on UNESCO Global Geoparks. What an amazing place.

🇵🇹 There's so much more to the Algarve than beaches. 🌐 Read my travel article for City AM on exploring the Via Algarviana hiking trail: www.cityam.com/portugal-hol...

⛴️ Leg 7 of my journey to the UK Geoparks meeting is nearly complete... Hello Shetland!

🇺🇿 Uzbekistan, it's been amazing. Now to begin my 48hr journey to the UK Committee on UNESCO Global Geoparks. Wish me luck, it's a 7-leg journey using 5 modes of transport...

🌳 An exciting few days ahead at the EcoExpo Central Asia in Samarkand, and a great pleasure to see my Maximum Exposure colleague Sophie Ibbotson co-host the opening ceremony.

Wow. Words and photos don't do justice to this place. 🇺🇿 Samarkand, Uzbekistan