The Telegram
It’s a day of celebration on the Bonavista Peninsula.
Rock dating back to more than half a billion years, and some of the best-preserved Ediacaran fossils in the world have earned a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) Global Geopark designation for the region.
The announcement came early Friday, July 10, from the Canadian Commission for UNESCO and the Canadian Geoparks Network, following the decision made at a UNESCO meeting in Paris.
Discovery is now amongst a short list of five Global Geoparks in North America.