ProGeo 2009 - ProGEO WG3

PROGEO what is it?

ProGEO - WG3 next meeting and workshop Geodiversity, Geoheritage & Nature and Landscape management will be held in Drenthe, The Netherlands from 19th - 23th April 2009.

The objectives of ProGEO are:

• to promote the conservation of Europe's rich heritage of landscape, rock, fossil and mineral sites;
• to inform a wider public of the importance of this heritage, and of its relevance to modern society;
• to advise, in our countries and in Europe as a whole, those responsible for protecting our Earth heritage;
• to organise and participate in research into all aspects of planning, science, management and interpretation that are relevant to geoconservation;
• to involve all countries in Europe, into an exchange of ideas and information in an open forum, and contribute to conservation in a global setting, including the formulation of conventions and legislation;
• to work towards an integrated European listing of outstanding geoscience sites, thus enabling  full support to be given to the work of other international bodies, as well as to national initiatives towards site protection;
• to achieve an integrated approach to nature conservation, promoting a holistic approach to the conservation of biological and physical phenomena.

ProGEO Working Groups

ProGEO has four working groups:

• Working Group 1 - South-eastern Europe,
• Working Group 2 - Central Europe,
• Working Group 3 - Northern Europe
• Working Group 4 - The British Institute for Geological Conservation.

Cooperation with other organisations

ProGEO cooperates at a national and European level with other networks that focus on geohertiage and geodiversity, such as:

• the European Federation of Geologists (EFG),
• the Unesco European Geoparks Network (EGN),
• the International Association of Geomorphologists (IAG),
• the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS).